Moderators protect us from the worst of the internet. That comes at huge personal cost.
Moderators protect us from the worst of the internet. That comes at huge personal cost.
But this isn’t voluntary moderation (though that might also have that issue), this is about the people who moderate for a living. So people on Facebook, or X (formerly known as Twitter), who see the posts that you report, and have to work with all of that.
Those people typically aren’t going around just hoovering up a mod spot for the fun of it.