> Personally, I can't imagine a single moderator on Reddit continuing without being paid. Unfortunately, many of them are: Just not by reddit. Commanding the

> Personally, I can't imagine a single moderator on Reddit continuing without being paid. Unfortunately, many of them are: Just not by reddit. Commanding the attention and eyeballs of in some cases millions of users is a big opportunity, and there are countless shady hangers-on trying to cash in on personal or financial relationships with reddit moderators. If every current reddit mod quit, the platform would only be overwhelmed by financially-motivated hucksters at an accelerated rate. And frankly, that's what reddit is encouraging by not supporting the moderators that actually give a shit about the platform and not their own pocketbooks. This will only accelerate the decline of quality of reddit.