Reddit Gets into Crowdfunding with Redditmade (opens in new tab)

I know you're just joking, but I think it actually makes a lot of sense. Reddit has given birth to a lot of successful businesses, websites, projects, and careers. I bet internally the question was more along the lines of, "how do we monetize without taking away from the community, and perhaps, even further enhancing it?" This is one solution that helps them monetize by further supporting the community.

Bear in mind that most of the Anonabox scrutiny came from Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/2j9caq/anonabox_to...

Agree completely. This sounds like an amazing idea but trust is the #1 problem with crowdfunding. If Kickstarter has a massive problem with trust, how is this going to work with a site that doesn't require emails to sign up and that vehemently defends the right to anonymity of highly suspect users. And I say all this as someone who loves Reddit and is super active on the site.

Looks more like a Teespring-type thing than a Kickstarter-type thing, which should mitigate this quite a bit

Hopefully, we'll see some intense scrutiny a la /r/AMA verifications. :-)

Reddit has already swallowed gallons upon gallons of bad press. Half the time Reddit hits the mainstream news it's about paedophilia or harassment or misogyny. Not saying that Reddit is full of incredibly vile people, but that's the "if it bleeds it leads" news about Reddit that hits the larger media world. At this point anybody who uses Reddit is either immune to scandal or already gone.

We've kind of learned from that incident now. It's still very fresh in people's minds, and mentioned quite often.

"Cult" does not necessarily have the same meaning as "niche" or "obscure."

Here they're using it to describe the fanaticism rather than the small audience. You could legitimately call star trek a "cult show" IMO.

Too much data! Too much data!