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Today, Reddit forcibly removed me (and everyone else) as mods of /r/iOSProgramming, a subreddit of about 130k users. I was keeping the sub private / NSFW | Tanner B 🦕🧁 (@[email protected]) (mastodon.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I dont get why subreddit mods work or worked for free for a company that makes money from what they do …..

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because some of them find value in building a community, because humans are quite social.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Look I get it but some of these people going to work for free are just screwing over everyone else who wants to get paid for their value. Also it leads to corruption in that the mods of places find a way to get paid anyways.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Probably same reason people go crazy for power, no matter how small of an amount