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I wouldn't go as far as to say they are 'corrupted', just that they are extracting their payment in a non-monetary form. i.e. There are no 'unpaid mods', at le

I wouldn't go as far as to say they are 'corrupted', just that they are extracting their payment in a non-monetary form. i.e. There are no 'unpaid mods', at least for any significant period of time. It's just that typically in real life we try to avoid setting up relationships were the only compensation is payment in social status, petty office maneuvers, etc..., since it's very visibly obvious in person. So we don't think about the different dynamics online. But this is the compensation model for a huge fraction of online communities.

memefrog 3y ago
That's an interesting theory, actually. Maybe part of the reason that our current economic system has been so successful is that it manages, mostly by chance, to avoid this kind of compensation. People are largely compensated in money. Of course, "toxic" office politics does exist. But it tends (at least where I'm from) to be something people associate with working for the public service, rather than in the commercial world.
qingcharles 3y ago
That's interesting. How about if I changed the model and paid the mods? I would seemingly be able to increase my control over them, insomuch as I could more easily tell them to "lighten up," but would that work? Paying them definitely balances out the power dynamic a bit, but I still feel that most people are inclined towards dictatorship when given power that is largely unchecked.