because they are very concerned about annoying/destroying the community.
in the hands of a purely profit-oriented company they would make enormous amounts of money and milk the site until its demise a couple of years in
in the hands of a purely profit-oriented company they would make enormous amounts of money and milk the site until its demise a couple of years in
and in addition they could have very targeted advertising for the highly specialised subreddits.
but aggressive money-making surely would destroy the community and turn the site into a superficial link-collection with comments in the style of youtube but you could milk it for a couple of years and earn a lot