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Depends who you think your customers are. Last I checked Reddit was claiming to be a platform for creating communities, so that would make their customers community creators, aka mods.
If they want to try to get all of their money from fickle mobile app users and ad revenue, I wish them the best of luck, because they're going to kill what's made Reddit distinctive and unique on the web for the last ten years. And wow do I feel like a conspiracy nut for saying that.
Comment by [deleted] at 26/04/2017 at 02:57 UTC
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Depends who you think your customers are. Last I checked Reddit was claiming to be a platform for creating communities, so that would make their customers community creators, aka mods.
Believing this requires being deliberately obtuse. Anybody could very trivially realize that there simply aren't enough mods to generate the income they bring in, and therefore mods can't possibly be their customers.
Mods are volunteers for a for-profit corporation, nothing more. In it's most basic form, we're donating our labor in order to make reddit more profitable and attractive to customers, for no benefit of our own. Mods aren't customers or products, they're unpaid workers.