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Reddit is telling protesting mods their communities ‘will not’ stay private (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 years ago by OrangeCorvus@feddit.ro to c/technology

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Man Reddit is really trying to push a narrative of big bad mean mods, never mentioning they're unpaid and being ignored while doing a shitload of labor

[–] CapgrasDelusion@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Estimated $3.4 million dollars of free labor per year.

[–] shanghaibebop 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly, that’s probably an underestimate. 3.4m at 20/hr (so 15/hr plus overhead) with 2000 work hours in a year only comes out to ~84 full time employees.

I really doubt they can do what most of the mods do with 84 minimum wage (sf Bay Area) workers.

Even if you outsource, the amount of expertise in specific fields is very hard to find even with money.

[–] CapgrasDelusion@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, the study authors explicitly say they are low-balling the estimate.

As mentioned earlier, mod logs do not include all moderator activities. For example, replying to moderator mail and deliberation, two types of moderation work reported in prior work (Dosono and Semaan, 2019; Gilbert, 2020) do not appear in mod logs. As a result, our estimate of moderation duration is designed to be a lower bound estimate. Although we provide an underestimate, our work serves as a first step towards quantifying this labor and paves the way for future work to comprehensively quantify moderation hours.

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