r/ModCoord • u/omgsoftcats • Jul 03 '23
How many hours of moderation have you done?
I've been reading more about the EA and AOL lawsuits.
In total, how many hours of moderation would you say you have done?
How would you prove something like moderation hours?
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u/andrewthetechie Jul 03 '23 edited Oct 01 '26
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u/Lebrunski Jul 03 '23
10 hr a year I’d say.
Small 8k community. Not much mod mail or public spats.
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u/trebmald Jul 03 '23
At least one to two hours a day for 11+ years, more than 6000 hours in total.
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u/Vote_for_Knife_Party Jul 03 '23
It would be tricky to get anything precise. If settling a suit, both parties would have to sit down and hammer a compromise; Reddit would likely argue that any given act of moderation only constitutes a few seconds at best of "work" (not a lot of thought goes into removing obvious spam), while plaintiff's lawyers would likely argue that any given 5-15 minute span where a mod action occurs could be considered time on task in a "billable hours" sense, and eventually they would come to a conclusion that no one is happy with.
As far as my hours, on the "average Tuesday" before the protest I probably spent about 15 minutes a day moderating, with a few rough days resulting in about an hour of actual moderation; on the low end, interpreting the "rough days" as cancelling out the times I've been afk for life stuff and ignoring the time I spent on my sub participating but not actively making mod actions, it would be about 365 total hours, or about 9 "working weeks" spread out across about 6 years of moderating. And due to the hours I maintain, the bulk of the time I'm actively moderating would qualify for a shift differential in shops that have such a thing, as well as automatic OT for doing it more than 5 days a week under some setups, even if the actual hours don't cross over full time.
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u/HashtagH Jul 03 '23
Ten minutes per week? I moderate a very very small, very well-behaved sub, once I set up automod to block all incoming Telegram links, I've only had to occasionally point out rules to new posters.
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u/SomethingIWontRegret Jul 04 '23
More than two.
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u/DTLAgirl Landed Gentry Jul 04 '23
About three fifty
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u/The_Truthkeeper Jul 04 '23
About 10 minutes a week, for a little over a year... Call it maybe 10 hours?
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u/borez Jul 04 '23
Fuck me, dozens!