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		millzlane on July 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Buddy Pond Cloud Desktop Surprised to learn that AOL paid volunteer chat admin in free hours before it was $19.99 for unlimited. https://www.wired.com/1999/10/volunteers/

aebtebeten on July 13, 2023 [–]

> Gone too were many of the volunteers. Without the hundreds of dollars worth of free hours, more than half left.

an early instance of the general rule: if you're running a social, don't piss off your already woefully underpaid mod team...

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