Could you walk me through your thinking around this?
> Basically I'm thinking you try and get the subreddit owners to help foot the bill since they are generally the ones getting the most value from the community engine that is reddit.
From my own perspective, as a moderator of a subreddit of 40,000 subscribers, the community get the most value from the moderators. We work for nothing because we want to help the community. If there is a good, ethical way to profit off of this I am missing, please let me know.
Mods would pay nothing. One person who owns the "domain" (sub-reddit) pays 10 dollars per year. And it was just some food for thought. I'm not advocating it, but reddit does need a better influx of cash then the gilding system I think.
I agree reddit needs to find a better monetization system, ideally one that positively impacts users.
I would point out that, at least for the sub I run, nobody is really considered the owner. The original registrant is inactive, and there's no head mod.
> Basically I'm thinking you try and get the subreddit owners to help foot the bill since they are generally the ones getting the most value from the community engine that is reddit.
From my own perspective, as a moderator of a subreddit of 40,000 subscribers, the community get the most value from the moderators. We work for nothing because we want to help the community. If there is a good, ethical way to profit off of this I am missing, please let me know.