There’s being a mod on many levels. From a mod on 4chan to a mod in facebook groups. Being a reddit mod these days is like naming your herpes and showing coworkers “pictures of the kids”
stammering under the pressure Post spez reddit and the humanitarian… then… i just can’t. Holy jesus fucks on wednesdays this shit screams “reddit mod” which is a whole new level of stupid. Seriously guy? You think you’re that important?
And then a reddit mod steps in. And bigorty… bans… society??? post spez reddit mod activate. Mother fucker.
The mod is a lazy POS. He will continue to contribute nothing to the household for as long as it’s tolerated. I hope he sees that post. Maybe that was the intent all along.
Also, I can see how “fake job” could be taken as rude, but why is it bannable to say mods “do it for free”? To me, that just seems like a statement of fact. They are unpaid volunteers, after all. Am I missing something?
The part you’re missing is that “they do it for free” is an ancient 4chan meme.
The phrase is meant as an insult to mods, implying their life is so pathetic that they willingly do the (truly horrible) job of moderating 4chan without even asking for payment.
Moderating a subreddit is a choice, not a personal characteristic. Attempting to dilute the meaning of the word by pretending that criticism of moderators is “bigotry” is itself abusive reactionary rhetoric.
At the same time, this is realistically the only way to gain/maintain community for really niche topics. Unfortunately, lemmy is not a thriving place for things like nonograms, low-poly artwork, the artist C418, or Pokemon GO research/infographics.
When I said “they owned bukkit” I didn’t mean they founded it, just that they were at the time of the controversy the owners of bukkit. Them taking it over isn’t mutually exclusive with owning it.
Also the controversy I was referring to was back in the peak of bukkit’s use, and they had owned it for some time before that peak. I’d wager the controversy was a much larger component of the fall of bukkit than them “plucking it apart” considering it was a product they owned and wholly benefited from it being the defacto standard at the time.
Working for free for a large corporation is just sad. What’s even weirder is that this person acknowledges that it is basically a job, but doesn’t mind not getting paid for it. I think most people that spend ridiculous amounts of time working for a big corporation for free don’t have the understanding that it is basically a job.
Agreed, that type of person seems to me like someone who associates their job with their identity. Doesn’t help that our identities are almost exclusively linked with our occupation but anyway or that Reddit takes advantage of people who do.
Star Trek in 1966: has a bridge crew containing a black female, Russian man, and faaaabulous Japanese man, each of whom holds the rank of full Lieutenant on their own abundant merits
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