The Punishing Ecstasy of Being a Reddit Moderator

To a volunteer mod, the chance to catch the enemy in its tracks is a high we’re all chasing. We sort through queues of posts, hundreds at a time, getting trolled and insulted and shat on by the internet—for one moment like this one.

I have never in my life needed to bully someone more than I do at this moment

Holy shit that's literally the title.

I appreciate this. But that isn’t why I spend 20 hours a week arguing with people on the internet and banning trolls. I do that because it’s satisfying to chase and destroy the zombies, and to do it alongside people I trust.

Oh my fricking god

I think about the cliché “You couldn’t pay me to do that.” For 20 or so hours a week, the line feels apt. You couldn’t pay me to mod reddit.com. Imagine that job: 9 to 5 every day behind a screen, weeding out trolls, totally anonymous yet more vulnerable by the hour for every new racist or sexist you ban. No, I insist on doing it for free.

Actually teared up laughing, this is so great

🤣👍

Snapshots:

• reveddit.com
• archive.org
• archive.ph (click to archive)

I thought for sure the post title was classic rdrama editorialization but lo and behold

I see every post and comment that comes in, one by one. We check every one against each subreddit’s rules. Our rules.

I wanna flush this 🆖️a's head down the potty so bad

The Hate-Fueled Rise of r/The_Donald—and Its Epic Takedown

His other article on wired. This histrionic r-slur lmao. They closed their own doors for a year before spez &co decided to include them in a ban wave when they had no activity. A completely meaningless and futile gesture. Very very epic.

One of my closest mod friends, u/mockturne, holds a senior position at a major chain restaurant company.

heck of a way to say he's an assistant manager at mcdonald's lmfao

Anyone wanna take a guess on what the journo that shat out this article looks like?

He definitely got shoved inside lockers at school.

No, I insist on doing it for free.

This is the end of the article. You literally can't make this shit up.

WORDS WORDS WORDS posting

bragging about moderating

all the while doing it for $0.00

Mods must be eliminated Inshallah

THESE ARE THE rules: Users of r/aww

that's as far as i could bring myself to read

If you thought that was bad, just wait till you hear what us rdrama.net mods have to go through.

Tie me to a nuke and fire me at where ever this guy lives, I'm ready.

https://streamable.com/1pqqkk

J*urnalists & j*nnies, name a more iconic duo

I do it for free

tracking down Russia propaganda

There's a lot of propaganda there but it certainly ain't russian

As a PoD, I'm offended that a drug such as ecstasy is being associated with the p-dophile and nazi harbouring website aka Reddit

I like how the picture shows them as a literal janitor

This is just sad. Wired is one of the last news outlets I like to read.

Darnit for a second I thought they published a new one but this is is still the old

Pretty good satire.

There are fewer than 500 paid employees at Reddit, but tens of thousands of us volunteer moderators

Lmao is this the ultimate form of cuckoldry? Imagine bragging about being a slave/indentured labor especially when you know others are making money doing what you're doing.

What is the ecstasy? Banning people that are off topic or being rude? Having "power?"

Tech journ*lists are very low on the journo totem pole, and very high up on my list of people to get into a self defense situation with

DEER """JANNIES""" eat MY """""""""BLACK C*M""""""""" Ty/

Relatable. Jannies are truly the most oppressed and underappreciated minority 😔

imagine doing all that work

for free