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Require auth and it’ll help a ton.
by AlphaSite 3y ago
Require auth and it’ll help a ton.
- Zak 3y agoReddit wants people to visit the site, become interested in the content they see, and start participating regularly. That's not compatible with hiding enough content behind a registration wall to thwart sufficiently sophisticated scraping.
- thomastjeffery 3y agoOne of the core features of Reddit is that any person may create as many accounts as they like for free. Changing that would be incredibly disruptive. You could set a minimum karma threshold, but that would only promote karma farming; which is already widespread.
- MuffinFlavored 3y ago> One of the core features of Reddit is that any person may create as many accounts as they like for free. Changing that would be incredibly disruptive. I wonder what their monthly active users look like if you filter out 1 person switching through 3 usernames/accounts for example.
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- asdadsdad 3y agoreddit might be one of the few last places on the internet that hold the old times of pseudo-names and mindless anonymity. I don't see how changing that would benefit the company. see twitter