Iirc some moderators are actually paid, not by reddit though. Like Indie Stone, the maker of Project Zomboid, pay for moderation team on reddit. But that’s just a drop in the ocean.
The moderators who run much of the site are not paid directly, but they’re definitely in league.
Powermods took over reddit a long time ago. Hell, I’d go so far as to say reddit secretly promoted r/the_donald and other extremist subreddits, and had a direct hand in getting him elected.
They’re really not. I got to interact with many of them during the vaxxhappened protest and I got the impression that they were largely rather timid people. I do think that Reddit management is happy with the arrangement though, because it means they can abuse the mods knowing they won’t rock the boat.
Got here before me lol. Seriously though it’s ridiculous. I basically feel like I have to pee 100% of the time and I’m just guessing if I actually have to go or not. Can’t wait for surgery and not having to be on spiro anymore
Assuming my life doesn’t collapse again like it did last year, I have surgery in June. I’m lucky to have the job and the insurance that I do. Even with really good insurance I’m dropping thousands of dollars regularly and I haven’t even gotten to the surgery part it’s madness x.x
So because insurance and hospitals are a mess I have to be in a self pay agreement. The theory goes I cough up about $45k, do surgery, they bill insurance, insurance refunds the hospital, then the hospital refunds me. What might happen is insurance gives the hospital the middle finger and I’m out a down payment on a house worth of money then I get to sue everybody and see what happens. In hindsight I probably should have just done medical tourism but I didn’t have the capacity to figure that out at the time and now it’s a risk to my life if I go much longer without surgery
The other costs are flying out of state for large volume hair removal because I can locally only get like 1-2 hours a month since everyone is booked out. Also needing constant therapy because everyone needs increasingly specific therapists letters for me to get anywhere. Finally because I’m getting surgery out of state I need housing for a month so that’ll be like $2-5k depending where I can find
Yeah, trans rights in the US are an absolute joke.
Still, I’m happy that you even have $45k in the first place. That’s one of the reasons why I hate reimbursements. Sure, the net cost might be zero, but you still gotta have the money in the first place.
I used to moderate an older forum site 2 decades ago, (the place is still up and running) they asked me to sign an NDA after realizing I never signed one.
Which seemed reasonable, until I realized, I was an unpaid employee, working in my free time. So, immediately quit and suddenly faced backlash from my fellow moderators in front of users.
Suffice to say, all mods had alt accounts that they used to psychologically torture other board members. This site was owned my a major television broadcaster. My point is, don’t ever work a job someone should be getting paid for.
They’re also on the USB-IF and co-developed Thunderbolt so even though it’s a great thing for compatibility, all of the issues with it are their fault 😂
I use the *arrs to make a well named hard link to the file in my media library right after the download completes. Then they can be removed from the torrent client after appropriate seeding time/ratio.
No point in keeping the torrent if I no longer have the file. Unless it’s something I know I will re-watch/use multiple times, I delete the file after I’ve used it.
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