"You'll get your ~rent~ unauthenticated content when ~you fix the damn door~ the bots stop scraping"

Yeah a huge part of reddit's usefulness for me is the ability to pull a page when googling something and being able to see discussion right there. I sympathize with the fear of scraping but I think this will hinder development and discoverability a good bit. It may also just be for the beta period? I don't see a blog with any info on that though.

ah i didn't see those. cool.

You're not gonna believe it, but it's the original founder of Digg and one of the original co founders of Reddit.