The funny thing is, during some budget cuts a few years back (amongst some other things), Blizzard fired some of their community liasons. At least one of which was a mod on r/wow. Had a goodbye post and everything, because they understood being a reddit mod for free is for suckers.
Which I assume contributed to r/wow still being private. Blizzard being too cheap to have paid shills on the payroll, and unpaid shills are obviously not as pressed to re-open subs.
I wonder how they do that. Do they pay someone to apply to be a mod, or do they pick an existing mod and offer them cash to do it full time? Do they talk to the mod team and go "we would like to pay someone to help out, can you let them in"?
Many times the people are just employees. Community Managers or whatever their title on paper is, actual paid employees of the studios hired internally, managing the social media presence on multiple platforms. Like, there's no rule that says niche subs like r/Stellaris have to be divested from Stellaris/Paradox.
The funny thing is, during some budget cuts a few years back (amongst some other things), Blizzard fired some of their community liasons. At least one of which was a mod on r/wow. Had a goodbye post and everything, because they understood being a reddit mod for free is for suckers.
Which I assume contributed to r/wow still being private. Blizzard being too cheap to have paid shills on the payroll, and unpaid shills are obviously not as pressed to re-open subs.
I wonder if there's a similar situation with /r/pathofexile. The sub's still private despite the fact most other subs are coming back online.
I wonder how they do that. Do they pay someone to apply to be a mod, or do they pick an existing mod and offer them cash to do it full time? Do they talk to the mod team and go "we would like to pay someone to help out, can you let them in"?
Many times the people are just employees. Community Managers or whatever their title on paper is, actual paid employees of the studios hired internally, managing the social media presence on multiple platforms. Like, there's no rule that says niche subs like r/Stellaris have to be divested from Stellaris/Paradox.
But how do the people become employees, is my question!