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Janny claims that the mods are worth over $3.4 million a year to reddit:
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I expect if they were paid US minimum wage for the time they spend moderating it would be far higher than that.

But if you removed all the bullshit and whining I'd guess they really should be spending maybe 1% of the amount of time they currently spend.

I have to think that if they were paid jannies and a public company they'd look at all the trans subreddits, how little revenue they bring in and how much moderator time is wasted and close them down.
 
It's an unpaid and often thankless post. Mods are volunteers; they don't get paid. Redditors believe that mods have some sort of phenomenal, cosmic power, but in truth, it's mostly just a lot of repetitive manual labor.
Does this retard not realize this is exactly why mods have no leverage? And nobody believes that they have some 'phenomenal, cosmic power' wtf is this guy smoking. Reading that whole thing has reaffirmed my position, TJD TODAY.
 
I expect if they were paid US minimum wage for the time they spend moderating it would be far higher than that.
If they paid them even a dollar it would be illegal under minimum wage laws but since they're volunteers they get to pay them nothing as these spastic defective mental retards do it for free every day.

And they think they have "leverage." Lmao.
 
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I suspect that GPT will just generically recommend reddit for anything, but still amusing. (SOURCE)
I tried to get Kiwifarms, and while I didn't, I'm convinced it's because the training data is horribly dated rather than because of any SEO or censorship.

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Janny claims that the mods are worth over $3.4 million a year to reddit:
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I don't think mods are worth that much, not even a single penny per hour when they do retarded petty shit to fuck over subreddits or users for wrongthink.

If I remember mods can ban the fucking owners from their own subreddits which is pretty insane. And these asswipes want more tools and shit because even that's not enough?

Oh well, it is pretty funny to see mods bring up how much value their work is as some sort of bargaining chip... even though they do it for free.
 
I don't think mods are worth that much, not even a single penny per hour when they do retarded petty shit to fuck over subreddits or users for wrongthink.
They're worth less than nothing because they literally destroy the forums they're supposed to moderate by banning everyone who isn't pure cancer.

This whole thing is basically cancerous tumors threatening to go on strike and quit being cancer.

You just wonder why people who you wish would go away and preferably jump feet first into a wood chipper always threaten to do that but never actually do.
 
My personal shock spray was Rule 34 of Hitler with a giant boner giving the Roman salute.
Heh. Mine was of the school bicycle flashing the camera...which i had to scan from an instant-photo film camera.
The 16 year old will more likely have a vested interest in employment, education or training.
The 16 year old can also be disciplined.
 
Janny claims that the mods are worth over $3.4 million a year to reddit:

Then why are you bloody wankers doing it for free? It seems to me, that the market rate for a reddit moderator is 0$ an hour. Pay more, and reddit would be overpaying.

If moderators were worth millions to reddit, mods would have more leverage. They could make demands. But as we see now, moderators have essentially zero leverage, because each one of them can always be replaced with another unemployed terminally online tranny basement dweller.

You have to admire reddits predatory business model for its sheer ingenious exploitation of the large natural deposits of autism. The site-content directly manufactures jobless fedora wearing tranny-adjacent nerds, and then it employs these same nerds at zero cost for moderating the content. And the market rate for a reddit autist is zero dollars, precisely because they have been rendered unemployable in the real economy, by watching too much anime pornography on reddit. Reddit creates their own no-cost workers, and then pay them zero dollars to create more. Its a win-win strategy, in the short term.

Unfortunately for reddit, this business model will in time drive away non-degenerate users. You know, those with jobs. And when they leave, so will advertisers. But at that point u/spez will have gone through with his IPO, unloaded the problem on wall street gamblers, and retired to a wealthy enclave of hedonism and depravity in California. And still the impotent jannies will seethe.
 
I would too because I'd realize I'm in a gay bar.

So Spez apparently removed the top mod of r/piracy and promoted another mod. The comments are filled with the genius idea of linking to torrents pirating nintendo. I think Spez wants it to remain open cause I get the feeling he's one of those people in torrent comments asking how to get the torrent to work. What's a winrar? What's a demon tools?
 
I don't think mods are worth that much, not even a single penny per hour when they do retarded petty shit to fuck over subreddits or users for wrongthink.

If I remember mods can ban the fucking owners from their own subreddits which is pretty insane. And these asswipes want more tools and shit because even that's not enough?

Oh well, it is pretty funny to see mods bring up how much value their work is as some sort of bargaining chip... even though they do it for free.
That's what spez meant by calling them landed gentry (although obviously he picked that analogy to specifically piss them off). Subreddits live and die on the whims of mods, and the head mod is ultimately the ruler. There's no recourse for users to oppose fifth column moderation when subreddits get subverted by hostile mod takeover, which has been a common complaint relating to power users. The comparison is that there's no democracy, and the subs are "inherited" by those picked by the top mod.
There's been exceptions in the past where the admins have intervened - but that was by exception, and usually to do with them shutting down the sub completely rather than users complaining that they didn't like the trannyjanny rules.
They've strongarmed a couple more largish subreddits that were trying to stay dark. The admin approach appears to be firing warning shots by removing mod access to non-compliant top mods and leaving them only with mod mail; this was /r/Unexpected:
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When the mods capitulated, the access was restored:
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A similar thing happened with /r/Steam:
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and apparently a few others like /r/piracy, /r/aww and /r/roblox (lol).
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I guess it's kinda smart; it's calling the senior mod's bluff by removing their ability to do anything while still keeping communication lines open so they can panic and freak out about losing their mod powers. Some subreddits are apparently "working with" the admins a bit more after some polls and going into restricted mode;
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More than a few redditors are observing that if the complaint is "unpaid labour" then the mods could just accept being removed, since that way they won't have to do that "unpaid labour"... so capitulating because they'd lose their ability to do "unpaid labour" shows how facile that argument is. There's also redditors pointing out that if the mods were so concerned about the "communities" that they "care about", attempting to permanently shut down those communities instead of letting them stagger on isn't really acting in the community's best interest.
Only other point of note is someone in /r/dataisbeautiful did some number crunching to support the protest and accidentally proved the inverse (i.e. the overwhelming majority of reddit users do not use third party apps and do not care);
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The comments were a heavy mix of seething about how this must be wrong or the data being unrepresentative alongside people pointing out that this was obvious and their dumb little protest is misguided
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About the only people I have sympathy for in this situation are the moderators of /r/blind, who have said they can't run their subreddit any more as none of the default mod tools work with stuff like screenreaders so they can't actually moderate without a third party app. There has been a statement that non-commercial accessibility-oriented apps will be enabled to work through the API, though, and it's clear most of the protestors are really just pissed that their app of choice is being shut and they're being told "no".
Oh, and the protestors are now escalating their demands in a very amusing way;
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The smartest protest tactic I've seen is mods of "wholesome" subreddits setting their subreddits to be tagged as NSFW which isn't advertiser friendly, but that's a very low bar.
 
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