It’s hilarious. Huffy’s idea is to turn Reddit into the Company Store… what’s that, all you unpaid moderators, all you users who spent countless hours posting essays of valuable information? You all want to ACCESS this content that was provided to us free, FOR FREE? EF YOU PAY ME.
He’s got to justify his $193 million compensation on the backs of the unpaid labor of moderators and users who provided the actual thing that made reddit valuable.
Steve Huffman is a carbuncle. When I quit Reddit, I ran a browser plug-in that deleted every single post and comment I ever made. I hope more people do this, and slowly lance this $193 million abscess.
Well, you specifically said blocking ads EQUALS piracy, and I don’t see where blocking ads resulted with me owning my own copy of the content in question, or with me selling that content for profit.