>Reddit has core product development, mobile apps, marketing, ad sales, anti-botting, high-level moderation, new product r&d, etc that all need paid staff Ok,

>Reddit has core product development, mobile apps, marketing, ad sales, anti-botting, high-level moderation, new product r&d, etc that all need paid staff Ok, and while this is slightly facetious, it is actually a bit serious: Most of those things have resulted in downslides to quality and increased controversy. Essentially all of reddit's product R&D has been terrible and nearly universally criticized by users. I'd say that's mostly added a ton of risk that the whole site gets abandoned a la digg.