[pavel_lishin]

> if the mods band together

I think you're over-estimating how singular the mod community is. They can only impact their own subreddit, and even at worst, if the top ten subreddits did collude somehow - which is, fine, possible if not probable - that still leaves a wild long tail of Reddit content which is arguably a much better place to put ads than r/pics or r/amitheasshole.

I used to moderate three subreddits, one of them on a pretty serious basis. We couldn't even fucking get the mods of that community to "band together" on anything.