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by Deprogrammer9 431 days ago
A tiny one-time $5 barrier keeps the bots at bay and saves the best usernames for actual humans.
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codingdave 431 days ago
Interesting gambit. Based on how many reddit users just accept randomly generated names, I'm wondering how much they tested the hypothesis that people are willing to pay for a username.
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