[BrotherBisquick]

The powers that be have deemed that they don't care what the "free labor force" wants or thinks. They care about the experience of the users, not the experience of the rulers of petty internet fiefdoms.

Reddit has indicated that it wants to pay for content moderation. So be it. Who are you to tell them how they run their company?

Maybe when we move away from "volunteers" then the "volunteers" can get real jobs that pay real money! It'll be good for them.

[TX81Z]

That’s my point: they benefit from a huge volunteer labor subsidy. They can’t afford to moderate it themselves as they clearly don’t have the financial resources.

They are free to run the biz into the ground, won’t be the first or last to do so. Meanwhile YouTube will keep printing cash.