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Clive Thompson Jun 17, 2023

Reddit's CEO is attacking Reddit moderators, calling them spoiled "landed gentry" who are messing up his service ...

... when in reality Reddit mods do over $3.4 million in free labor annually, as per a recent scholarly estimate

And that's a lowballed, conservative estimate

My essay on it here: https://clivethompson.medium.com/reddit-moderators-do-over-3-4-million-in-free-labor-every-year-d3571235c32c

A "friend" link in case you're not a Medium subscriber: https://clivethompson.medium.com/reddit-moderators-do-over-3-4-million-in-free-labor-every-year-d3571235c32c?sk=8526a9c3671885cce45a2bd3d1e36b82

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Kevin Russell Jun 17, 2023

@clive

Agree on your point, but I think a true valuation of the content provided free to reddit is astronomical.
I don't think 3 million is even in the same country as an accurrate measure of the worth of reddit content.

Just for being one of the "most useful results" on searches, it probably arranged for several billion in google ads.

As writers are now on strike, its hard to pin down exactly the hourly costs of writing a hundred thousand pages that people search for.

Yep, fair enough