[ceres]

> It consumes a lot of time/effort if you do any sort of active moderation

And yet some Reddit mods manage subs with 10s of thousands for… free.

[jqpabc123]

If you want to work for free, Reddit will gladly accommodate.

But they also have thousands of very well paid employees. Average salary $150K+.

[ttul]

Indeed they do. And on that team is a massive number of salespeople who are constantly farming the world for advertising dollars and a large team of machine learning engineers helping to ease the burden of moderation.