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I really wish reddit would begin to pay small amounts to its moderators. I feel like it would be a basic income experiment and kinda neat since the mods do most of the content and user moderation for reddit and spend thousands upon thousands of hours there.

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I disagree. If income was paid out Reddit would then be sending out 1090s or W2s to every mod. Analytics and time tracking would be put in place. An entire team would need to be stood up to oversee mod management. Mods from certain regions of the world would be disavowed, and the barrier to enter would naturally be higher for new mods.

I say mods should be either full employees or volunteers, you can't mix between the two.

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