I am also open to the sources that the low level mods were "hired" by the top mods.

That's the default of how it works on Reddit.

https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004273892-M....

You made the claim that the admins added mods, what made you think so?

That link doesn't say anything about hiring, and doesn't have any evidence on the top mods paid to "hired" the lower level mods. As for the sleeper mods being added by force, there were definitely warnings about them before, but then the whole sub is wiped out now. Very convenient to get rid of all the evidence.

There were no mods added by force by the admins.