The fact that humans continue to mod for free, to make reddit a profit which they will never see, baffles me.
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2025
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It almost made sense back when it seemed like users felt they owned their content. Now that spez has made it clear that belief was wrong, providing free labor is a fool's errand.
It used to have more of a geocities vibe. I could create a new subreddit and it ostensibly belonged to me.
The big subs should just let it go unmodded for a week, I've been a mod of a big sub once and fuck damn people posted and commented some insane shit. Let r/aww go unmodded, that will fuck Reddit's advertisement. It would take half an hour before r/aww became r/gaww
I think automation tools “work” if one lets them do more false positives than not.
This is why I think a lot of Reddit is automatically modded now, because of the unfair treatment people report
0.1 % is what they say. Why are they even still there after all that happened? Is "power" really that important to everyone?
Under new rules rolling out over the coming months, a small number of users will be required to leave some of their moderator posts so that they aren’t moderating more than five subreddits with 100,000 monthly visitors.
Good. We could do with a similar rule here on lemmy. I know there's probably a lack of people to fill all the needed moderator positions, but I'm pretty sick of seeing the same people moderating the majority of communities that I visit.
It becomes especially apparent when someone gets banned from one community and the powermod bans them from every other community that they moderate. It's rare that someone actually deserves that type of scorched-earth response.
Their stock is at 200 something now.
Shit sells, man.