To state the obvious, non-commercial and detached moderation is valuable
and sought after, and cannot be bought.
The reward chain is obviously broken, as all moderators get is some
amount of unsaid appreciation from several hundred people around the
world. I guess it may feel unreal - nothing in the physical domain - no
drinks, promotions, tenures, sex, or even mention of the topic (I mean
nettime).
The real question is how to repair the reward chain and make the process
sustainable? The machine-mediated real world will not let anything
through, except cash.
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