Main points: He plans to make moderators popularly elected to more easily vote them out.

Hopes the next frontier will be subreddits as businesses.

He does not want Reddit employees to take on the work. Moderator hours were valued at 3.2 million last year, 3% of reddit’s revenue.

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    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.

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      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.)

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            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.