this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The part you're missing is that "they do it for free" is an ancient 4chan meme.

The phrase is meant as an insult to mods, implying their life is so pathetic that they willingly do the (truly horrible) job of moderating 4chan without even asking for payment.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Okay, the hypersensitivity and defensiveness make it even funnier.

YOU CANNOT SAY THOSE WORDS BECAUSE THEY WERE USED IN A JOKE TEN YEARS AGO.

(Why doesn’t anyone take me seriouslyyyyy?!? Come on, guys! I’m a REDDIT MOD! I should be treated with RESPECT!)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

'They do it for free' is mild compared to 'jannie' tbh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FYI: lemmy thinks you're a bot account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It misread the “a” in your user name

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know, but I had an inbox notification without seeing a reply, until I turned on visibility of bot accounts and your comment showed up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is that a thing? Which app is it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm using the mobile app Jeroba and I see a robot face icon next to your username

UPDATE: it is gone now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I browse lemmy.world in Firefox. It's in your profile settings.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing this. I would never guess there was 10 years old backstory to it.