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by johnnyanmac 1109 days ago
>You want to have a little hobby of moderating a community. Fair enough, pay for your hobby.

not sure I agree with this angle. If anything it's the opposite. just like how software dev is a job, so is community management. Reddit already has what amounts to free custodial labor, growing and fostering the site for them. They should be paying people to moderate that if they don't want their admins/internal Community Managers to bother with anything more than legally threatening content.
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that_guy_iain 1109 days ago
True.

But just like software development, people do community management for a hobby.

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johnnyanmac 1109 days ago
To each their own, but you can't even pay me to deal with angry users who can't read the rules of the forum they want to post to, day in and day out. I'll never understand people who do so in their own personal time. Again, not unless they are using that as "portfolio fodder" to pivot into a professional CM role.
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