It's not that uncommon. The stadia subreddit mods are all Google employees as well, for example. I agree it's not an ideal setup.
Please Don't
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Take moderation positions in a community where your profession, employment, or biases
could pose a direct conflict of interest to the neutral and user driven nature of reddit.
> Reddiquette is an informal expression of the values of many redditors, as written by redditors themselve
But I guess it makes sense for Reddit to move away from that rule. That's how you get big campaigns with companies like Adobe. Not by taking away their sub-reddits.
Personally I think I even prefer that though. Better than having heavily biased "community moderators", which is the case in way too many sub-reddits.
Redditors are basically never happy with anything. Their ideal world is some place with no rules except that everyone else is forced to read their comments. Unfortunately, such a place does not exist.
Many people try to reduce complex multi-variate situations into simple variable situations and then lambast people on other forums if their chosen variable turns out to be different.
I just saw an example of this last week in mobilereads forum. Unhappy with iBooks and the kindle apps I’ve been reliant on Marvin for quite a time. But the dev has vanished from the scene for last 2 years. I just investigated if creating a commercial replacement would be a good idea but good god, the one forum where people have been talking about Marvin can have extremely ultra specific needs for a very unreasonable price expectation. After reading that forum I’m not exactly surprised that the dev chose to abandon the goal post.