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The Reddit moderators who coordinate many celebrity AMAs will no longer do so (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

From the article, emphasis mine:

“Will this undermine most of what makes IAmA special? Probably,” the moderators wrote. “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.”

I think they're wrong. I don't think Reddit has the funds.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

They can just take it out of the c-suite salaries

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah exactly — Reddit hasn’t been profitable ever. Probably explains why they fired the person who actually was hired to do celebrity AMAs and leaving it to volunteers. Celebrity AMAs are probably one of the better ways to attract attention, but of course are pretty expensive.

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

Oh well.