> Edit: He also says "tens of floors", which further demonstrates the ignorance, since Reddit would be better described as thousands of floors. ( 676,951 sub-reddits according to redditmetrics. )
It's an analogy between Reddit and a big community center building with different groups having rooms in the building. The point is the relationship between the groups in the above ground rooms, and the groups that are hidden away in basement rooms. The number of floors is completelyirrelevant to the validity of the analogy as long as it is enough to qualify as a big community center by community center standards. Tens of floors is sufficient.
If he had said tens of thousands of floors so that the number of rooms would have more matched the number of sub-reddits, there would be people complaining that no building has tens of thousands of floors.
It's relevant because the cost and responsibility of closely managing something of "community center" size is wildly different from something of "arcology" size. Also see problems faced by: Youtube, almost every ISP ever.
It's an analogy between Reddit and a big community center building with different groups having rooms in the building. The point is the relationship between the groups in the above ground rooms, and the groups that are hidden away in basement rooms. The number of floors is completely irrelevant to the validity of the analogy as long as it is enough to qualify as a big community center by community center standards. Tens of floors is sufficient.
If he had said tens of thousands of floors so that the number of rooms would have more matched the number of sub-reddits, there would be people complaining that no building has tens of thousands of floors.