Reddit launches moderator rewards program amid site-wide discontent  | TechCrunch
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Reddit is launching the “Mod Helper Program” to reward moderators who offer helpful advice to other moderators, along with an updated moderator help Reddit is rolling out updates to its moderator support features, but has been slow to launch moderation tools that were offered by now-defunct third-party apps.

The Mod Helper Program is a tiered system that awards helpful moderators with trophies and flairs. Reddit users accrue karma by receiving upvotes and awards, and lose karma if they receive downvotes. The program rewards moderators who receive upvotes on comments in r/ModSupport

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  • Wooshock@lemmy.world
    221·
    1 year ago

    That’s all they could come up with?

    Man, I used to moderate small and medium-sized subreddits, and all we really wanted was to be able to audit spoof accounts and to be able to shut down report spamming. Why? Because users harass moderators, that’s why. And reddit would always play this game of promising new mod tools and never delivering. And now, this is what they give. Unreal. A fucking trophy.

    What about IPO shares? What about discounts or credits for reddit services? What about a simple thank you for cleaning up their site?

    • beebarfbadger@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 year ago

      What about not maliciously and completely unnecessarily taking away the good tools already available out of sheer greed and then pretending that complaining about that is the real problem?