Comment by GregorSD on 06/08/2013 at 18:32 UTC

100 upvotes, 12 direct replies (showing 12)

Reddit only has 28 employees? for such a massive branching website with literally millions of community members, that is insane.

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Comment by GaslightProphet at 06/08/2013 at 18:42 UTC*

148 upvotes, 7 direct replies

Tons of community volunteers do all the day to day policing, and we owe them our thanks!

Comment by preggit at 06/08/2013 at 18:45 UTC

51 upvotes, 3 direct replies

Keep in mind there are thousands of (unpaid) moderators on the site that help keep things running too. 28 employees is still impressive, but it takes a lot more people than that to keep a site this size (relatively) spam free.

Comment by [deleted] at 06/08/2013 at 19:32 UTC

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If it was my money they were spending I would argue that it's far too many employees for what is actually done.

Think about it, the site is virtually self sustaining in that no one in the company has to create new content or even place content that someone else has created on the site.

The code that runs the site of course needs work but unbelievably they even get this tested and sometimes even written for free.

Yes there is a large infrastructure to look after but this is somewhat outsourced and again if it was my money I would be looking at doing that more.

So when you think about it what is there actually for the employees to do? Well there's selling advertising but that really should be the easiest sale in the internet advertising world given the amount of unique visitors the site gets. Then there's the admin stuff of banning idiots and trying to make sure the spam is kept to a minimum but again most of this is done by the users.

In my view reddit gets off very easily because no one in the corporate world quite knows what to do with them. They can't go advertising mad or the traffic will fall and they can't figure out how to really make money apart from that, there are ideas that are working a little but they'll take time and will never make huge amounts.

So they're left in this little corner to their own devices which is why there's 28 employees when in reality there probably is no need for more than 10 at the very maximum for the current way the site is structured.

Comment by MackAttack9 at 06/08/2013 at 18:40 UTC

8 upvotes, 1 direct replies

You're insane.

Comment by yeahdef at 06/08/2013 at 18:41 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

well, computers are pretty awesome, so this is in fact possible.

Comment by TheReasonableCamel at 06/08/2013 at 18:55 UTC

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Mods do a lot of volunteer work

Comment by Bert306 at 06/08/2013 at 19:43 UTC

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Did you even read the blog its reddit not Reddit. Get it right!