I can already imagine how many scams this new feature can enable

"Join our private subreddit to unlock the secret to become rich" and then inside all you find is something like "yolo on Intel" and so on

Reddit is a media company now, they're not a community. Tons and tons of ads, thin skinned moderators with God complexes running completely out of control, and they now have platform profit responsibility.

Will cost them - this is a significant change to, by definition, some of their most popular content. Many people go to Reddit purely to find non-paywalled versions of content.

It'll anger Redditors but they'll gladly hand over their money

If you're gonna spend money to post on a forum, might as well just sign up for Something Awful. Or pay for access to Usenet if you don't get free access from your ISP.

Here because of this

Right, you guys keep on penning that really long suicide letter.

I got permabanned from reddit by zionists for calling out their bullshit and saying that Netenyahu should face harsh legal consequences.

Tone down the snarky comments already guys. Never interrupt the enemy when they're making a mistake :>

Seriously i gotta pay to see a flipping subreddit

Glad I got out when I did

Morals aside, this wouldn't work from a business perspective.

Aaron Swartz is rolling in his grave.

I mean, wasn't that what /r/lounge was for?