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Re:Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign by eli on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @11:41PM (#9697357)
4chan was profitable? I find that very surprising.
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Re:Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign by jaggederest on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @11:47PM (#9697380)
He said in an interview that it was technically profitable, but that nobody was taking a paycheck. That was in 2010. It's been supposed that the 'passes' system in 2012 made the site actually-profitable, but I haven't seen any statement to that effect.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/one-on-one-christop...

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Re:Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign by brobinson on Thursday June 11, 2015 @12:33AM (#9697575)
He also offered refunds for the passes last year because Google's new Recaptcha system meant that a lot of users were no longer seeing captchas at all.
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Re:Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign by fleitz on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @11:43PM (#9697366)
I know me too, Poole described it as 'technically profitable' not sure if that is ramen profitable, etc.
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