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by muh_gradle 1229 days ago
This is an irrelevant distinction to be made for reddit in 2023. Reddit is profiting off of work from unpaid moderators, who do have a significant say in reddit user experience. And there are a small number of power users that moderate many of the largest subreddits and then some.
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PenguinCoder 1229 days ago
The GP said:

> Wouldn't expect anything less from a company who would ban you for making a sarcastic comment.

My point is not irrelevant to the distinction, it IS the distinction. Moderators on Reddit are _not company employees_.

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simplotek 1228 days ago
> This is an irrelevant distinction to be made for reddit in 2023.

Not really. Trying to conflate the role of a subreddit moderator with a company employee does not make any sense. I've became a subreddit moderator automatically when I created subreddits, and I assigned the role of subreddit moderator to other users because I could. I'd be surprised if anyone argued that reddit owed me something.

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heywhatupboys 1229 days ago
Remember: one of the "highest ranking" reddit mods with a direct line to the admins is a literal convicted child abuser who beat her wife and kid, all public records, she (now preferred pronouns, MtF, was father), is protected by reddit. Another mod is literally married to a convicted p-dofile who r-ped someone, again, these people post with their real names, all public records.

some mods even get a paycheck from reddit! (this was leaked from a zoom convo they had)

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thesid 1228 days ago
This surely is speculation. After the aimee incident I'm sure reddit would have booted all risky candidates off the payroll
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heywhatupboys 1228 days ago
the moderator leak came about 30 days ago. I am not sure if I can link the content here without breaking some obscure HN rule, even though they are behind pseudonymic usernames.

rdrama.net , who fight against these types of degenerate Reddit mods, have had the leaks in their threads. Even if they are not officially on the payroll, the moderator who has been convicted of beating her (she was the father) kid and wife, still has an "official" line directly to the Reddit admins, and she has admitted to working 60 hours a week for Reddit... While they might not officially condone their behavior, they use their free labor

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