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The deal with reddit is that the users contributions are their payment for using it. Without the efforts of the moderators (who work for free) and the contribut
by drumhead 3y ago
The deal with reddit is that the users contributions are their payment for using it. Without the efforts of the moderators (who work for free) and the contributors (who do it for free), no one would even bother using reddit. Anything on top of this is cream for management. A revenue sharing deal like Youtube would be a good idea especially for the more popular sites.
- EA-3167 3y agoSeriously, Reddit can't complain about "free products" when the single thing that makes them exist is the presence of many thousands of VOLUNTEER mods, and millions of users generating content. Without them Reddit is just another hole in the ground.
- constantcrying 3y ago>many thousands of VOLUNTEER mods, and millions of users generating content. And of course reddit being used as an aggregator for third party content, which is reposted to their site,
- LightHugger 3y agoWhich they deliberately make difficult to download by making their own video player just to hide the default webm->right click->save as. You can still download it with some effort, but it gets silly. It's not like someone saw a metric saying "oh no the memes are getting stolen and reposted we need to shore it up or else we'll lose money" rather an out of touch exec used the website, saw it was easy to download videos and images, and started directing their devs to "fix it".
- williamcotton 3y agoAre you sure that there isn’t a sizable population that would be willing to moderate for free and within the constraints that Reddit wants to put in place?
- comte7092 3y agoWe will find out!
- cyanydeez 3y agoA lot of bots now operate and that truth statement is gonna lose its glow