Don’t be shocked if reddit itself secretly replaces a mod with a staff member or more likely intern for the large subreddits. They want their advertising money.
Honestly doubt it. They are trying to make money. Staff members would add to the cost when they have always been run by volunteers.
Interns are cheap, some don’t even get paid.
to protect the ad revue it will most likely be worth their allocating paid headcount or staffing up with contractors, at least in the short term, which is why this is precisely what’s going to happen
I highly doubt it. There’s no shortage of people willing to do it for free.
They will probably add additional mods, but I bet the top mod will be an employee. Thus they can insure no future protests.
Probably a building of overseas people making 50 cents an hour.
Yes, they apparently are going to remove me from the private subreddit I had set up a few years back for bot testing.
They’re a joke.
That’s amusing, I would have thought they could write a few lines of code to target subs that went private or NSFW within the last month. Keep us posted if they appoint a new moderator, I am curious now.
There’s a subreddit r/redditrequest where users can request to be a mod of an unmoderated community. Although reddit might hand pick some consistent posters for the larger subs.
Here’s an idea if you have free time and feel like trolling: request those powers and if granted; abuse those new and fancy kapo powers until you get stripped of them and banned?
This is what’s happening. I forget what subreddit it was, but a former reddit mod posted that he and his mod team were all removed as mods, banned for a week, and the subreddit they modded was posted to r/redditrequest after they turned their sub into a NSFW subreddit.
r/RedditRequest is useless. I requested multiple times to take over inactive and blank that were being held by squatters. Each time, Reddit simply ignored the request.
I’ve used it successfully before.
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Underpaid workers , free mods ( slaves ) which are even happy to do it . Super mods. reddit admins.
Most likely if enough free mods leave and not enough rejoin some outsourcing center likely from a cheat country.
They’re not slaves. They’re rubes, but not slaves.
People willing to cross the picket line.
This is something I just commented on somewhere else, I’ll paste it here:
I don’t believe they’re really concerned with replacing the mods right now. I think what they care about is the number of times people are coming from search results and seeing that the subreddit is now private instead of what the search was for. They also probably want to get ahead of it fast because Google’s gonna stop pointing to them for results that don’t exist anymore. That’s why getting the sub public but locked is what they’re doing instead of replacing the mods with interim mods and keeping the content coming.
Money is #1 for them, spez has his investors breathing down his neck, and he’s so burnt out on being involved that his PR is absolute crap but of course he won’t leave without the payout he’s worked so hard for. If you look at it from that perspective it all makes sense, at least for someone who only cares about money.
People who DGAF about community but care a lot about promoting their agenda and don’t mind putting up with extra extra bullshit to make sure their side gets a little extra weight on the scale. The harder it is to contribute the more you get people who have a particular reason to make the effort. Some people thought it was bad before but we’ve seen nothing yet.
I suspect they think a Modbot can replace human mods. I doubt it so the job probably gets outsourced to underpaid workers. I dont think any new volunteers will hang around long if faced with an angry community.
Compare Quora for a moment. Now it’s basically Yahoo Answers with all the good answers being years old. They basically did as you propose Reddit will (Modbot, fire human moderators). It seems that Reddit might just go the same route.
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The mods did say that they rely on the API so they can run their mod bots.
