Has there been any indication that reddit may pay creators and moderators, like youtube and meta and other platforms do? or are they just expecting to pocket all the cash?

32 points

Reddit is a selfish company who feeds on free labor! They will never pay mods or creators.

How about you pay them instead for Reddit premium. After all, you get useless Reddit coins for your monetary sacrifice.

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i could see myself paying if the money was passed on to its creators. i mean i pay for spotify. youtube, im happy to sit through 5 minutes of ads!

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3 points

I know what you mean. I would too. But I know they’re getting nothing so it’s not worth it.

I only pay for YouTube premium tbh.

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I did pay YT. But I found myself not using it much.

I intend to do awards and prizes and bounties on my server. 🤷‍♀️

Nothing substantial. Just fun.

May give away some of my watches I don’t use and stuff.

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30 points

They recently laid off 90 employees out of 700 total. There’s absolutely no way they’re about to start paying the roughly 21,000 moderators that are active on a daily basis. The fact that they’re actively vilifying moderators as spoiled children wanting everything for free (gotta love that irony) really slams the door on any possibility of treating them with respect, let alone actual compensation for actually running the damn place.

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21 points

Anyone who still works for free for reddit, has some self worth issues. Bein a volunteer in a non profit is one thing, volunteering for a corporation trying to squeeze last penny from user generated content while actively shitting on users, is a strange thing to do in my book. Moderators should just all quit.

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9 points

I don’t know about you, but I was raised to have self worth issues. It took a lot of b.s. to break that.

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4 points

Sorry to hear that, nice that it got better. I was lucky with my parents.

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2 points

Yea I say that to my s.o. all the time. Her parents are awesome and smart. I got lucky through her lol. I’d be a poor little something otherwise fr. I’m super thankful that I even have people that love me at all yknow.

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4 points

Yep it can be the law in some places.

I know a music festival that gave free tickets for volunteers in return for 5x8hr shifts. As the festival was a limited company (not charity) the minimum wage laws of my country kicked in.

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20 points

My Good Sir,

Lord u/spez the lousy, has already landed the gentry and now you inquire as to providing wages for the common serf? Harumph.

Regards,

MB, Esq.

ps. Please see attached:

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18 points

It might be important to point out how pervasive clickbait content has become.

Even reputable journalists have to let their work become Clickbaity by their editors (title and headline mostly).

Despite all their efforts and super “AI” tools, YouTube is full of irrelevant clickbait whenever searching for something.

All that just to get a pinch from the advertising money pit.

Paying moderators and redditors will likely kill whatever vestiges are left of reddit.

Moreover, altruistic behavior tend to shun/shy away from paid work (it’s a totally different mindset).

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YouTube is full of irrelevant clickbait

I’ve even seen this when searching for technical questions on Google/DDG. And it always seems like the video most closely related to what I’m trying to learn leads to this one guy literally saying (not literally ) “thumbs up, coment, subscribe, patreon” then posts an actual screenshot of a stackoverflow thread that I read through minutes prior. Infuriating.

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I am Happy to find things I feel will bring good to the world.

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