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> Paid moderation isn't usually something people are willing to pay for.

Is there any reason to think that paid moderation wouldn't lead to its own (possibly worse) biases?

Hacker News has paid moderators, and seems to be higher signal than Reddit.

HN moderation is pretty terrible considering the slow amount of posts per day

What's wrong with it?

What works on a slow / low volume site (HN) doesn't necessarily work well on a high volume site such as Reddit.

Is that actually due to moderation?

I guess the reason would be that they could take away your pay.

But who is "they"? The one who pays the piper picks the tune.