They might have set up the user agreement for it. Stackexchange did and their whole business model was about catching businesses where some worker copy/pasted code from a stackexchange answer and getting a settlement out of it.
I agree with you in principle (hell, I’d even take it further and think only trademarks should be protected, other than maybe a short period for copyright and patent protection, like a few years), but the legal system might disagree.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
/u/Buddahriffic put it better than I could.
I agree, it should be reddit’s intellectual property. But the law binds the poor and protects the rich.