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Reddit Admins hand /r/SnackExchange over to a moderator with no experience. Other subreddit moderators fight in comments.(teddit.hostux.net)

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ATiredPhilosopher@lemmygrad.ml
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Sadly people are quite dedicated to doing work for free for some reason

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DigitalPortkey@lemmy.world
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Well, it’s not a huge mystery or anything…people love the communities they build up. You feel a sense of loyalty to the people and to the idea behind the community.

From the outside looking in, I can see it being “working for free”, but by that measure wouldn’t any instance of you contributing anything that benefits others to be “working for free”?

Half of the tech support knowledge I have comes from people “working for free”.

I think the sad part about Reddit is that there’s still a lot of people that want to hold on to what they’ve built up, and Reddit is banking on that to force them to change.

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ValiantHobo@discuss.tchncs.de
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there’s a difference when its big business cashing the check and not someone else working for free.

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BigJim@lemmy.world
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I think it’s mostly about wielding power tbh

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Dick Justice@lemmy.world
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Totally this. This is a brand spankin’ new mod, hardly someone who has built the community. Heck he snuck up on the lead mod within a matter of hours after being made a mod.

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imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee
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People like you would think that

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Sota4077@lemmy.world
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Well, it’s not a huge mystery or anything…people love the communities they build up. You feel a sense of loyalty to the people and to the idea behind the community.

Dude. Its about power and control. It has little to do with any sense of loyalty. I’m sure there are a few that have some measure of loyalty, but very few mods are doing it because they just love the topic they moderate. They’re doing it because it gives them power and control and they love that. Absolutely no one can convince me otherwise.

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🦥󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠@lemmy.world
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I think there’s plenty of mods on both sides of that argument.

Some do love the communities they’ve built up and some just love the power trip in their miserable lives.

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orientalsniper@lemmy.world
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I don’t agree, not all mods are power hungry, some subs are what they are today because of their mods.

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The Menemen!@lemmy.world
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Whis understandable and actually great! But if they get screwed over by a profit hungry company for doing work for the community.

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