Comment by Bardfinn on 02/08/2022 at 19:01 UTC

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There’s a lot I could say here that’s highly technical and in-depth, but instead I’m just going to point out the cobra effect[1].

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

Paying or compensating volunteers to mod communities creates a perverse incentive to have an audience that necessitates moderation by moderators - or for moderators to create reasons to moderate that audience.

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Comment by WikiMobileLinkBot at 02/08/2022 at 19:01 UTC

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Desktop version of /u/Bardfinn's link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

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