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Comment by marincounty | Hacker News Reader

Does Reddit pay you for moderation? I think I know the answer, but they should start to pay. It's not like they don't have throw around money?

I can take some Reddit, but get tired pretty quick. One joke is funny, but 50 quips just reminds me how I loate humans. (Not loathe--just dissapointed.) Kinda like the feeling I get when I'm on Facebook longer than a few minutes?

They build it, and people came. People opened their mouths, and confirmed all doubt?

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>Does Reddit pay you for moderation?

There are enough people that see moderating a subreddit as a source of power that they simply don't have to, new mods would always be available for free.

>It's not like they don't have throw around money?

Uhh, reddit hemorrhages money, every attempt at profitability has failed. Paying moderators would provide no value.

>Uhh, reddit hemorrhages money, every attempt at profitability has failed. Paying moderators would provide no value.

I don't see the correlation.

You can't pay people token sums to moderate or they can sue you and demand proper wages and benefits.

The same thing happened to AOL's old chat rooms back in the 90's and early 2000's.

http://priceonomics.com/the-aol-chat-room-monitor-revolt/

They do it for free :^)

Ending statements with question marks doesn't make them less committal, so just end them with periods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCNIBV87wV4

> I think I know the answer, but they should start to pay.

Probably not a good idea considering the drama and mod abuse that's happened in the past...

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