Bold of you to assume that Reddit would want to spend money on moderator hires. They'd just recruit some fake-power-hungry bootlicker who will follow, for free, the admins' instructions.

yup it's all so f*ing transparant it's just pathetic. anyone with half a brain should see right through that cunt Hoffman

Are you suggesting that it could get corrupted, so as to favor a person or group of persons? But they'd still have their content, and isn't that what really matters there?

Totally agree.

For a given sub, how many accounts map to individuals vs bots/fake accounts? For real accounts, how many of those actively engage with the sub? This is not a problem for 'controlled' user accounts. The legitimacy of any vote will be suspect...no way around that.