I was a digg power user then transitioned to reddit when that all went to shit and my intended grift of making money through selling digg visibility disappeared.

I've run dozens of subreddits and still do although incredibly lazily like 99% of legacy reddit mods that have been in their positions for way too long.

I started the use of subreddits as hashtags via spamming /r/hailcorporate in response to every shill post on the site.

I even got a job in the game industry as an internet janitor too and have worked with EA, Ubi, Paradox, Sega and others. I firmly believe in that title for any online moderation and community management, all we do is keep things clean for everyone to enjoy an online space and ego in online moderation is a serious problem.

Ask me anything

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Community management roles are almost all filled by people with portfolios or internally in a company. You either build up a lot of online experience building and managing communities or you come up through an entry level role like tech support and demonstrate internally to others that you have an interest and skills to do it. Take the opportunities internally to "wear many hats" and do work with the marketing team -- events are good for this as the company needs many bodies for events/cons and they're super tiring horribly long hours that everyone hates.

    I do not recommend working in the game industry for very long though, it's extremely shit. There are some benefits though, I usually tell people to work in it for 2-3 years with the expectation that you will do nothing but work for those years then to get out and into something better. The reason for this is that career progression is FAST in these companies, you can move from entry level to important roles in just a couple years if you aren't a potato. You can do this then jump ship to a different industry where you'll get 4 times the pay compared to the same role in videogames.