Ever since most of these social sites launched their advertising portals, moderation has basically become a practice in how to creatively subvert non-paying pos

Ever since most of these social sites launched their advertising portals, moderation has basically become a practice in how to creatively subvert non-paying posters anyway. These sites need to ensure they deliver on numbers represented to paid advertisers, and now it's pretty much the only way to make it to top rankings, so how much one is willing to pay determines what's on the front page more than anything else now. The corporate mods are the ones that prevent harmful and deceptive things from staying at the top of the front page I bet, and they're not likely to be regular mod roles any time soon due to the power wielded. These massive social media sites all get corrupted after a while and then can never manage to come back. This may well be that point for Reddit.