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[The Guardian] There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user data
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spez should start paying the redditors, especially the mods, with that logic. He gets it all for free and now he wants to profit while we would have to pay.
Pay the unwashed masses? Please. They should be thankful his highness deigned to create such a platform similarly to the way the landed gentry should be thankful for their high position.
You dropped this /sss
Isn't Facebook starting to pay some contributors?
Some sort of profit sharing arrangement seems to be the trend in social media these days. YouTube has a setup like that of course... Instagram and TikTok both pay people (max of like 100 a month i think) and Twitter is planning to start.
No idea. It would not surprise me, though. I could see it for people who are "content creators" posting their videos or whatever their form of media is.
It's unclear to me to what extent this actually happens, but some people say reddit mods get offers to promote or allow certain posts for thousands a month. It would make sense on subs that have a seriously large audience.
I think what happens more is a "public outreach" company outright buys accounts that mod a lot of communities, then they offer "services".
Like, they'd buy an account that low level mods a bunch of gaming subs, then the same company sells "consulting" to a developer to "improve the conversation". Which would be subjective moderation that favors that developer.
If you're a shady mod, you just don't sell your main, and make lower alt mods then sell them.
Interesting. That would make more sense than paying some loser reddit mod every month.
Never thought about it like that. There's youtube millionaires from posting content. Imagine an only fans going private and the service was all "nah, get back in there".