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Re:Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits Tha... by senttoschool on Thursday June 22, 2023 @03:03AM (#36428884)
>Reddit needs to convert their model to financially compensate moderators of subreddits based on the revenue ads on that subreddit generate.

No, that's absurd. Plenty of people would become moderators for free. Yes, for free. And plenty of them would be better mods than current mods.

Mods provide less value than you think.

Most of the value was essentially being the first to register the name of the subreddit.

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Re:Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits Tha... by Zetice on Thursday June 22, 2023 @10:57AM (#36433120)
As long as incentives are not aligned, Reddit will continue to have mod problems, which will spook shareholders.
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