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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by geofft on Thursday July 02, 2015 @11:48PM (#9823339)
It's always struck me as weird that Reddit moderators are volunteers. While this may or may not have been justifiable, I'm not sure it was ever tenable that IAmA had a dedicated, paid staff member to make the subreddit run, answerable to Reddit the corporation and not to the subreddit moderators. (To what extent are the subreddit moderators answerable to Reddit the corporation, or vice versa? Remember that time that one of the IAmA mods went "It's been a good run, I'm shutting it down?")

So in retrospect, maybe all the other straws should have been obvious from the start.

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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by tallanvor on Friday July 03, 2015 @08:07AM (#9824986)
Volunteer moderators are an extremely common feature of forums all over the internet. The only forums I know of that have paid moderators are forums for specific companies and their products.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by tdkl on Friday July 03, 2015 @02:13PM (#9827069)
Sure, but those forums don't get millions in funding.
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Re:Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of... by anabis on Friday July 03, 2015 @04:14AM (#9824241)
Japan's 2ちゃんねる http://www.2ch.net/ has had volunteer moderators for a long time, so it should be workable.
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