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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] 15 points 2 years ago (4 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] 3 points 2 years ago

I think they were wrong on purpose, tbh. It's the kind of thing that would be embarrassing for Reddit to admit when they're going for an IPO.

Also, it's amazing how much money a large company can spend when it wants, even if its bank account is so far in the red it's upsetting bulls. Small companies, on the other hand, can't spend money they don't have. There's a lot wrong with this picture, but the net effect is that Reddit probably can hire full-time mods for r/IAmA if they want.

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