IAmA mods no longer willing to work for reddit for free

wmrch@lemmy.world to Reddit@lemmy.world – 1157 points –
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Will this undermine most of what makes IAmA special? Probably. But Reddit leadership has all the funds they need to hire people to perform those extra tasks we formerly undertook as volunteer moderators, and we'd be happy to collaborate with them if they choose to do so.

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Which makes no sense, because the high-profile AMAs she made happen certainly broadened reddit's public appeal by quite a bit.

It's the same logic they're still using: they want to monetize Reddit more aggressively, even if that kills its appeal and they have to brutalize their own community to do it.