I know a couple reddit mods IRL, and they’re both business owners who can take time away and volunteer for hours a day on their phones. I’ve also seen enough Facebook mods, where you can see the uni and school they went to and its posh as fuck.

I’m definitely very supportive of modding. I think it’s super that people volunteer their time to make communities safer. I just see that often those with the free time time have more income. One obvious example is Wikipedia, like the administrators are often there for much of the day. I know that there’s a lot of Amerikan funding of Wikipedia editors, and this just makes it worse. I can’t give up hours of every day to correct an obvious error, because there’s some chud that’s online 16 hours a day, who will revert any edit, and flood any noticeboard with tediousness.

I guess it applies to a lot of democracy “leadership” positions. Ideally workers would be filling those roles, but often we’re too worn out to do much other than just show up.