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2M “subscribed” users to a subreddit is about 10% or 200,000 daily viewers with about 1% of those commenting and 0.1% posting so 2,000 comments and 200 posts per day. Some subs will be more or less but that’s the magnitudes we’re talking about.

The equivalent situation assuming mods review every comment would be a subreddit with 1 billion users. If mods are only reviewing reports which is some small percentage of comments then adjust accordingly.

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> more review every comment

Moderation workflow starts with user-reports on posts/comments. At scale, you can set a threshold as well, which dramatically reduces the number of items to review.

Obviously, scaleup the number of reviewers. Obviously, add some obvious algorithms: warnings, temporary/permanent bans, etc. ...

Very well put, it's not even close to the same ballpark. It would also be like moderating a 1 billion user subreddit where nearly every single post is off topic and comes from different users, whereas in subreddits a few super users often produce a huge percent of the content.

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