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This is what happens when 2,000 people are employed to run a site that can probably be run with 200. What the heck are 2,000 people doing, considering that 95% of the site is run by unpaid volunteers...

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i thought it was almost 3000. I made the same point the other day, there's absolutely no reason they couldn't already be profitable, it's all just trying to get rich rather than exist.

Those 2,000 people are influencing what half a billion monthly active users think/believe, which products they'll purchase, and who they'll vote for.

I doubt reddit itself runs the bot farms that enable modifying public perception.

I suppose it's more about the power mods, sometimes with help from the admins, aggressively suppressing certain ideas while allowing others to flourish. So maybe they don't need all those 2000 people...

> Those 2,000 people are influencing what half a billion monthly active users think/believe

I'm not aware of reddit's admins having a large hand in curating site content, though I also haven't been heavily into reddit for a while.

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