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There was a social contract, an informal agreement, between moderators and Reddit - “We’ll moderate for you on this site, for free, as long as you provide a good enough place for the community to exist and enough support to help us out”.
This has been mostly worth it for a long time; even during shittier times, mods could be confident that their own space was under their stewardship and so could be protected from the worst that would come.
But now Reddit is being openly hostile toward its moderators, when in the past the most that has ever been expressed is indifference or ignorance. The website is getting worse, and so is the vibe - and so the deal is no longer worth it, so to speak.
That’s my thoughts on it, as a moderator there for 6 years who left a few weeks ago.
This is true, but think of it like this:
There was a social contract, an informal agreement, between moderators and Reddit - “We’ll moderate for you on this site, for free, as long as you provide a good enough place for the community to exist and enough support to help us out”.
This has been mostly worth it for a long time; even during shittier times, mods could be confident that their own space was under their stewardship and so could be protected from the worst that would come.
But now Reddit is being openly hostile toward its moderators, when in the past the most that has ever been expressed is indifference or ignorance. The website is getting worse, and so is the vibe - and so the deal is no longer worth it, so to speak.
That’s my thoughts on it, as a moderator there for 6 years who left a few weeks ago.