Volunteer moderators actually makes sense for the vast majority of boards. I would still prefer much stricter training requirements, but the unofficial board for a youtuber is not corporate reddit’s problem (until they start becoming a haven for white supremacists, I guess)

But I was always under the assumption that the ama board was corporate. It is very high profile, used as part of reddit PR, and often interacts with the kind of people who have lawyers on retainer.

The ama mods doing this for free were insane. But holy shit