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The bigger, sadder problem is that it would actually work. There's never been a more divided time in the world than now. You'd think everyone would see how disgraceful Reddit's actions have been and want nothing to do with the platform anymore, but realistically not everyone cares. It's already happening where you can simply tell mods that they aren't being paid for their time and instead of them thinking logically, they go ahead and ban you to silence you.
It’s not like they don’t know it’s not paid, if it’s a fun hobby people choose to support the communities they love they’d spend the time anyway. But with every move to make Reddit more corporate it makes the sites reliance on volunteers more exploitative.
Eh. a large majority of subreddits are moderated by just a few people as top mods. They're not modding out of the goodness of their hearts. They're modding because they're being paid to. (but not by reddit. It gives them a shit load of influence over what's on their subs, and companies find that... useful.)
Isn't that against the rules if it was proven? Or is it only if the mods post things that financially benefit them?
Whose rules? The company makes the rules, they can change them for whatever reason or no reason at all.
I meant reddits current rules, not what they might become.
I thought it was against the rules for mods to profit from their subs. If the mods of /r/pics started posting McDonalds pictures because McDonalds paid them reddit wouldn't like that at the moment.
Not saying it isn't happening either, you'd need proof to do anything though.