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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%
by criley2 3y ago
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...
- bluescrn 3y agoThose 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.
- ferminaut 3y agoI doubt reddit itself runs the bot farms that enable modifying public perception.
- bluescrn 3y agoI 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...
- zedadex 3y ago> 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.
- snowe2010 3y agoi 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.