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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  • Tolstoshev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    10 months ago

    Virtual trophies and flairs? How cringe. I assumed from the title they meant something of value like at least physical swag.

      • Tolstoshev@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        For sure. Can’t spend anything before the IPO, gotta make the books look good. They can hire more cannon fodder newbie admins to take the mod complaints though, because more employees signals more success and they can always be laid off right before the S1 for a final profitability boost. Can’t get that swag money back though.