[colordrops]

How about this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2tzvhv/so_i_got_a_glim...

posted by Ryan Merket, Product Manager at Reddit, as a push for Samsung products:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanmerket

He subtly admitted in other posts that Reddit is looking to make money from posts such as this...

http://www.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate/comments/2u0czi/samsun...

Read this sentence of his:

"I think you summed it up pretty well in your last two sentences."

Referring to:

"But since Reddit users will run if they detect Reddit turning into Digg, Reddit has to be a lot more subtle about how they let marketing occur."

[mahranch]

Looks pretty benign to me.

Of course corporations are going to post to reddit. Anyone who thinks that is nefarious in of itself is deluding themselves. If those people were trying to game the system in some way, to subvert the organic process, that's another matter entirely. Yet, there is absolutely zero evidence of that. Frankly, your dot connecting is like that of a paranoid child. It sounds like something from /r/Conspiracy.