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It hasn't been brought up, because it is ridiculous. Reddit is a platform to create communities, and people operating subs are reddit's customers. With the same logic you could argue that everyone posting on Twitter should have participated in their IPO, the same goes for Facebook, TikTok and whatever platform you can imagine. Why isn't Discord paying the server admins? HN would be nothing without people posting links. Should OP be paid by YCombinator for this thread?

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Discord does have a revenue share. [1] Elon Musk also recently stated that he planned to add creator monetization to Twitter. [2]

From Discord

> Good news: It's a 90/10 split! This means you, the creator, get to keep 90% of each monthly Server Subscription you sell, minus some small processing fees for legal’s sake.

From Elon Musk

> Followed by creator monetization for all forms of content

[1] https://discord.com/creators/server-subs-101-earning-money-o...

[2] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589010272341340160

The mods are NOT the commenters. There's a difference. Twitter moderates its own content via algorithms. Reddit still has comments in the same way Twitter does. But moderators literally moderate the content to make sure it's good and engaging and THAT'S what drives reddit.

The mods are also moderating voluntarily.

They are 'paid' with the power to promote certain opinions/ideas/products while suppressing others.

The most active+powerful mods are doing it as a form of activism, not as 'unpaid community builders'.

It's funny, but although there's not even the slightest thread of a relationship as the legal system would see it, we are in a sense "the authors of Twitter."

Hah. Community management, including moderation, is a job. We know this because of the AOL Community Leader Program class action:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Community_Leader_Program

I'm torn between disgust and embarrassment for the people providing free, unofficial support for trillion dollar tech companies via Reddit Requests. They literally get nothing, no job placement, no recognition, no pay or benefits, and no way to be made whole for providing services that have a real, demonstrable impact on company perception and operation.

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