Not a bad idea. Even in the case it doesn’t have a solid legal ground (I’m not a lawyer so I don’t know), I believe it’s still a good way to scare off investors and show what happens when you s*hit too much on your own free labor.
Apparently last year spez (or reddit admins) sent out a message to mods saying they are expected to work X number of hours a week.
A volunteer or contractor chooses their own hours. Specifying they must work a certain number of hours per week or be removed sure makes them look like employees under the law.
But I haven’t seen that message so I don’t know all the details.
That being said I don’t know why so many mods don’t want to give up their currently unpaid position when reddit is hellbent on making it more difficult for them. Let reddit figure it out and take your community elsewhere.
That’s kind of where I think they’d have an “in” towards a valid stance. The fact reddit forces a decorum and the laws about how websites are or aren’t responsible for their content because of moderation efforts. The fact they just replaced moderators because they broke the “moderator agreement” but are self appointed volunteers are conflicting stances. This on top of Reddit repeatedly saying they are their content but contribute none of it.
I doubt anything will come of it but making Reddit pay lawyers to theorize a defense is a good waste of their money at the very least
Not a bad idea. Even in the case it doesn’t have a solid legal ground (I’m not a lawyer so I don’t know), I believe it’s still a good way to scare off investors and show what happens when you s*hit too much on your own free labor.
Apparently last year spez (or reddit admins) sent out a message to mods saying they are expected to work X number of hours a week.
A volunteer or contractor chooses their own hours. Specifying they must work a certain number of hours per week or be removed sure makes them look like employees under the law.
But I haven’t seen that message so I don’t know all the details.
That being said I don’t know why so many mods don’t want to give up their currently unpaid position when reddit is hellbent on making it more difficult for them. Let reddit figure it out and take your community elsewhere.
That’s kind of where I think they’d have an “in” towards a valid stance. The fact reddit forces a decorum and the laws about how websites are or aren’t responsible for their content because of moderation efforts. The fact they just replaced moderators because they broke the “moderator agreement” but are self appointed volunteers are conflicting stances. This on top of Reddit repeatedly saying they are their content but contribute none of it.
I doubt anything will come of it but making Reddit pay lawyers to theorize a defense is a good waste of their money at the very least