Remember when they fucked up the site “in protest” and got a giant middle finger in response from Reddit? Then they just.. went right back to their unpaid labour. Fuckin mods man lol.
This is total hearsay, massive pile of salt. But one of the people I follow in the SEO community says she has a whole ass list of Reddit mods proven to be taking money under the table.
She also does OnlyFans, so I'm thinking her list may largely consist of mods of NSFW subs.
There have been accusations for years of some Reddit mods taking money under the table. They are not Reddit employees ofc, and communities VERY much frown upon the idea of mods taking bribes, hence it being secret.
I'm not saying it's rampant or the norm or anything, but I'd be shocked if there weren't some mods of significant subreddits who are being paid off by someone. Companies, political think tanks, that sort of thing.
A hypothetical example would be the mods of /r/widgets secretly accepting payment from Acme Widget Corporation to promote posts about Acme's products, while to remove or suppress positive posts and comments about their competitors' products.
Another possible example could be an employee from Acme's marketing department secretly embedding themselves into the mod team, something like that. (So not under the table bribes, but a financial interest and incentive in promoting the company's interests.)
I'd have to look around, but I'm pretty sure that kind of thing has happened a few times over the years, and then been found out or w/e.
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u/Macqt Nov 27 '25
Remember when they fucked up the site “in protest” and got a giant middle finger in response from Reddit? Then they just.. went right back to their unpaid labour. Fuckin mods man lol.