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by FireBeyond 857 days ago
Agreeing to write content for free to participate in a community is one thing.

How many Reddit users knew they were agreeing in the future for Reddit to sell the content they wrote to make money for Reddit, not them?

> no redditor expects to see a dime when they participate on the site and the site makes money form it.

Plenty of Redditors would disagree with you, and I'm not sure why you're acting like this is obvious. If I hadn't already deleted all my content and left because of the last debacle, I would be doing so for this.
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yanderekko 857 days ago
>How many Reddit users knew they were agreeing in the future for Reddit to sell the content they wrote to make money for Reddit, not them?

Despite my low opinion of Redditors, I believe that on some level they are aware of the principle that if the product is free, then you are the product.

If you presented the regular users with the choice between "pay a subscription fee and opt out or let us use your data in these ways", the vast majority will end up choosing the latter and we all know it.

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chollida1 857 days ago
>> no redditor expects to see a dime when they participate on the site and the site makes money form it.

> Plenty of Redditors would disagree with you, and I'm not sure why you're acting like this is obvious. If I hadn't already deleted all my content and left because of the last debacle, I would be doing so for this.

Really?

Ok, let's say reddit only sold adds for revenue.

What percentage of redditors do you think would feel justified to a percentage of reddit's ad revenue? Because the only reason the ads have value is because of the redditors themselves?

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FireBeyond 857 days ago
The only similarity there is revenue.

Ads are for consumption by Reddit users, and is an expected, if not liked, mechanism. That you can pay to opt out of.

People wrote content that they expected to be content on Reddit. Not to be later able to pick up a book (after buying it) and read their own words, that Reddit sold and made additional money off of (because they're still doing the ads, of course).

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chollida1 857 days ago
Appreciate the response, its clear you've given it a bit of though.

I guess we simply disagree. Given that there is no right or wrong and only opinions, then I guess we're at the end of the line.

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