"Reddit represents one of the largest data sets of just human beings talking about interesting things," Huffman said. "We are not in the business of giving that

"Reddit represents one of the largest data sets of just human beings talking about interesting things," Huffman said. "We are not in the business of giving that away for free." Hey Steve, you got that data for free in the first place. That sound you hear is users telling you that if you start charging ridiculous fees for serving that free data, your source of free data is going to dry up. I know it's tempting as Reddit's CEO to think the two issues (acquisition price vs selling price) are orthogonal, but they aren't. One possible solution is to offer your contributors something like a penny per word written. If you're going to charge for the words we write, we want our cut.