[AlekseyKorzun]

How about a benefit of Reddit it self as a community? $3 bucks a months provides way more entertainment to me then I could have gotten elsewhere for the same amount of money.

Yes, people will be OFFENDED that the web site they spend 1-2 hours a day on offers an option to subscribe and contribute something back to them for gasp $3/month.

[axod]

personally, $3/month is the same to me as $30/month. The actual amount isn't that important at that level. But it's something else to keep track of. Something else to manage. Another hassle. So the actual cost in terms of time/worry/hassle of paying for subscriptions on the internet is much higher. That's the hurdle. Not the price, the fact that it costs something.

So saying $3 is cheap is irrelevant - it's "paid vs free". There are complete books written about that subject. It's easy to give stuff away and fairly easy to make money whilst doing it. It's harder to sell stuff, especially cheap stuff.

Also though, Reddit isn't a startup. It's part of a massive multinational. Perhaps the people who cashed out on the sale should contribute some back to keep reddit running ;)

[blhack]

It's $4/mo.

That's about half of what I pay per month for netflix. Think about the infrastructure that goes into netflix. I get DVDs at my door (as many as I want) and they maintain a server farm full of streaming content for me to enjoy.

This is all done without ads of any kind.

...I'd say I'm getting quite a bit more utility out of netflix than I am reddit.

[unexpected]

That's fine, but that might not be true for everyone. I think reddit is the best thing to happen since, well sliced bread. I've gotten 100x more utility from reddit than I will ever get from Netflix.