[vile_wretch]

While I don't have a ton of faith in Reddit power-mods, my HOPE is that there would be enough solidarity amongst the mods to make finding replacements difficult and I can't imagine investors would be happy to see leadership excising a potentially significant percentage of their current volunteer labour force.

[bhouston]

You can always replace mods, especially if Reddit pays the new mods.

[the_snooze]

How does that square with Reddit's profit-seeking goals? Reddit isn't profitable when operating with an army of unpaid volunteer mods. I find it hard to believe they'd actually invest in proper moderation.

[kolbe]

I think the biggest problem with employing moderators isn't the cost, but that it now makes reddit liable for the moderation failures.