• ATiredPhilosopher
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    1 year ago

    Sadly people are quite dedicated to doing work for free for some reason

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      1 year ago

      Well, it’s not a huge mystery or anything…people love the communities they build up. You feel a sense of loyalty to the people and to the idea behind the community.

      From the outside looking in, I can see it being “working for free”, but by that measure wouldn’t any instance of you contributing anything that benefits others to be “working for free”?

      Half of the tech support knowledge I have comes from people “working for free”.

      I think the sad part about Reddit is that there’s still a lot of people that want to hold on to what they’ve built up, and Reddit is banking on that to force them to change.

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          So true. I live in a townhouse community, and I’ll mow my neighbors’ lawn when I’m out - it’s literally 3 minutes - or clean out their gutters when I’m doing mine. Getting ready for the job is half the battle, anyway. But I’m not touching any rental property. Hell if I’m going to donate my time to some landlord’s investment, even if it makes the neighborhood better.

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          1 year ago

          Totally this. This is a brand spankin’ new mod, hardly someone who has built the community. Heck he snuck up on the lead mod within a matter of hours after being made a mod.

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        Well, it’s not a huge mystery or anything…people love the communities they build up. You feel a sense of loyalty to the people and to the idea behind the community.

        Dude. Its about power and control. It has little to do with any sense of loyalty. I’m sure there are a few that have some measure of loyalty, but very few mods are doing it because they just love the topic they moderate. They’re doing it because it gives them power and control and they love that. Absolutely no one can convince me otherwise.

    • The Menemen!@lemmy.world
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      Whis understandable and actually great! But if they get screwed over by a profit hungry company for doing work for the community.