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Re:Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits Tha... by Miner49er on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @03:55PM (#36423503)
> In return, moderators need to re-agree to a set of terms that align their incentives towards being impartial and fair towards the users of those subs.

This will never happen. Reddit already makes rules that are not impartial or fair towards users. If they pay the mods the mods will only work to serve reddit (and therefore reddit's advertisers) not users.

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Re:Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits Tha... by Zetice on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @03:58PM (#36423538)
It's about incentives. Right now, mods and Reddit have very different goals. When you tie moderator compensation to subreddit financial success, suddenly the incentives are now aligned towards maximizing the number of eyeballs on a given subreddit, because eyeballs mean conversions and conversions mean revenue, and revenue means happy shareholders, moderators.

As for the users, we could debate all day what's best for them, but the war between mods and Reddit would be over, and that's incredibly good for users.

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