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by zvrba 4338 days ago
> Asking them to "pony up" their own money would, with no doubt in my mind, drive them away and completely destroy Reddit.

He wrote nowhere that mods should pay. I as a user would certainly pay $10/yr to keep subreddits I care most about going on.
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codemaster3000 4337 days ago
Moderators are the people who govern a subreddit, so naturally they are the ones who are most invested in a subreddit, and ones who will have to pay the bill each month if no one else volunteers, or watch their sub die.

> I as a user would certainly pay $10/yr to keep subreddits I care most about going on.

How many subreddits and how many years would you be willing to do this for? This might be feasible for subs like r/AskReddit, r/iama, and the other big ones, but as many other people in this thread have mentioned, "powerhouse" Reddit users are the ones that don't follow the terrible front page subs, and have found their niche. One of my favorite subs to go to, r/tabbletennis, has only about 2k subscribers, and I'm sure that there are more subs that certain people love, but have even less subscribers.

My point is that the logical point for payment would be through a mod, and I'm sure that outside of the larger subs, mods would be the ones footing the bill. This is a very dangerous game as mods are the pillars upon which Reddit stand, and aggravating them would pretty much be the death of Reddit.

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c23gooey 4338 days ago
User pays is equally as ridiculous as mod pays.

No way as a user i would pay $10/yr when there are multiple sites that will do the same thing as Reddit for free.

Im not interested in paying any website for the privilege of expressing my opinion and reading others.

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kinj28 4338 days ago
I see two valuable things for the end user at reddiit: a. Finding good sub reddits (out of 500k am sure that is a pain) b. Getting their content some sort of traction in the community which is ofcourse mod configured & rev shared with the mod maybe.

Do you think users would pay for this? besides, do you think the 2nd point has a scope of creeping in poop?

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c23gooey 4338 days ago
I agree that there are users who would pay for that. Indeed, there are successful business models based on this idea already. Those models see nothing like the traffic that Reddit gets, so they are not as interesting to advertisers.

Yes, i see point b) having a scope of creeping in poop.

I'm pretty sure that point b) was a large part of the reason for the downfall of Digg.

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