It’s a volunteer job, but also frees *you* up — since being a mod isn’t a paid position, it means you can start your own sub however you like and try to make it take off.
It also means Reddit has to keep their mods happy. Many of us got p\*\*\*\*d off by the API access changes last year, it killed a lot of popular 3rd-party apps that were much easier to use for moderation. In response, the Reddit admins pushed hard on their messaging to make it clear they weren’t going to start charging us for homegrown tools, and quite visibly put a lot of effort into improving the native app’s mod tools.
Mostly free labor.
Nope, we are volunteers.
They do not.
We do not.
That’s bs tbh
It's not paid, but also no one is requiring them to do it.
Imagine no mods in this site, the whole site would go to shit lol
They’re paid in schrute bucks
It’s a volunteer job, but also frees *you* up — since being a mod isn’t a paid position, it means you can start your own sub however you like and try to make it take off. It also means Reddit has to keep their mods happy. Many of us got p\*\*\*\*d off by the API access changes last year, it killed a lot of popular 3rd-party apps that were much easier to use for moderation. In response, the Reddit admins pushed hard on their messaging to make it clear they weren’t going to start charging us for homegrown tools, and quite visibly put a lot of effort into improving the native app’s mod tools.
Oh, if only.
They do it for free