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View submission: /r/IAmA set to private over mod firing
dam I never noticed until you said it....
unpaid labor in return for perceived power/influence on the site.. now I kind of hate myself for supporting such a scheme.
Comment by i_lack_imagination at 03/07/2015 at 08:28 UTC
141 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I think there is a certain irony in it though. For all the power that they let moderators have for their free labor, it's now the very power that moderators are wielding to force reddit admins to do something. For all the times that reddit admins wanted to be hands off, not do anything about the moderator abuses that occur, especially in the default subreddits, they essentially kept telling users to "Go make their own subreddit if they don't like it", no matter how shitty the mods were being.
So now guess what reddit admins, go make your own IamA, go make your own AskReddit. Or you can listen to the moderators and get the shit straightened out.
Comment by eugay at 03/07/2015 at 10:55 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Oh come on. Every online community ever works like this.
Comment by [deleted] at 03/07/2015 at 18:42 UTC
0 upvotes, 0 direct replies
unpaid labor
You people really haven't been on the internet for long have you?
That's like going into an IRC channel and telling the moderators, "YOU DON'T OWN THE SERVERS THAT LINK THE NETWORK TOGETHER, YOU'RE BEING HAD!"
You're a bunch of fucking idiots.