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Reddit CEO says he’ll change rules to end protest (www.msn.com)
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Main points: He plans to make moderators popularly elected to more easily vote them out.

Hopes the next frontier will be subreddits as businesses.

He does not want Reddit employees to take on the work. Moderator hours were valued at 3.2 million last year, 3% of reddit’s revenue.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Eh. a large majority of subreddits are moderated by just a few people as top mods. They're not modding out of the goodness of their hearts. They're modding because they're being paid to. (but not by reddit. It gives them a shit load of influence over what's on their subs, and companies find that... useful.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't that against the rules if it was proven? Or is it only if the mods post things that financially benefit them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whose rules? The company makes the rules, they can change them for whatever reason or no reason at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I meant reddits current rules, not what they might become.

I thought it was against the rules for mods to profit from their subs. If the mods of /r/pics started posting McDonalds pictures because McDonalds paid them reddit wouldn't like that at the moment.

Not saying it isn't happening either, you'd need proof to do anything though.