You are correct. In the first revision of our white paper it was 2,000 to 3,000 per block (commas, US english number, meaning thousands). Our white paper has had quite a few revisions and changes (eg we dropped sign to mine) since then. I hadn't seen your reddit post originally so I can't comment on that, but I know we realized that our initial distribution curve in no way matched the reality of what our initial user adoption would be.
Quick fyi, the reddit user John Karton isn't affiliated with Ziftr in anyway. They're just a well meaning community member, which we appreciate very much, but in this case they were a bit mistaken.
Also, our reddit mods haven't deleted any posts. We're 110% against censorship. Negative feedback is often just as useful as positive. It seems to be something reddit did automatically. My guess is that the sudden activity in such an old post flagged it for some reason. We've got a few more mods activated now so they can try and keep good posts out of the trash bin.