Reddit Staffers Who Lost Jobs Livid at Being Painted as Low Performers
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> Wouldn't expect anything less from a company who would ban you for making a sarcastic comment.
My point is not irrelevant to the distinction, it IS the distinction. Moderators on Reddit are _not company employees_.
some mods even get a paycheck from reddit! (this was leaked from a zoom convo they had)
rdrama.net , who fight against these types of degenerate Reddit mods, have had the leaks in their threads. Even if they are not officially on the payroll, the moderator who has been convicted of beating her (she was the father) kid and wife, still has an "official" line directly to the Reddit admins, and she has admitted to working 60 hours a week for Reddit... While they might not officially condone their behavior, they use their free labor
Not really. Trying to conflate the role of a subreddit moderator with a company employee does not make any sense. I've became a subreddit moderator automatically when I created subreddits, and I assigned the role of subreddit moderator to other users because I could. I'd be surprised if anyone argued that reddit owed me something.
Yeah, managers often damn with faint praise. If your evaluation is full of soft language about how great you are instead of specific metrics on what you've accomplished, you're not doing well.
A person I worked with was featured in an interview at one point about workplace discrimination. He showed the interviewer one of his old evals intended to evidence his value as an employee. It featured a lot of flowery language like "works well with others" and praising him for being on time.
Meanwhile the dude was a useless narcissist. If you looked closely at the eval sitting on the table in the interview, you could see that the "lacks competence" block was checked. There's no way the interviewer didn't notice it.
That's the exception, not the rule. What's more likely?
1. Reddit did a shitty job hiring, reviewing, working with, and taking remedial actions with a large set of employees.
2. Reddit is just another company pulling a chicken-shit move; trying to eek out profits while putting blame on then little guys.
They're the most rabidly exclusive platform on the internet, and that seems to intensify year over year because the community is locked in a purity spiral of particular ideologies that don't seem to have a limit.
They're also extremely exposed to regulation right now. Moreso than any other platform (including TikTok) you can easily find content on Reddit encouraging children to engage in harmful behaviors and adopt extreme and bizarre ideas. And Reddit communities are more often than not led and controlled by people who are completely unknown, but somehow are able to spend career-level amounts of time maintaining their fiefdoms.
It's not great. Reddit was really good in the late 2000's when it was constrained to young nerds. Now it's something gross and weird.