> 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_.
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.
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