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They're just trying to get people to tie their real names, addresses, email, and financial information to their profiles, especially the ones with established post histories going back years.
They can figure some of that out, but all rolled up and verified by the account holder?
That makes their data on users waaaaaay more valuable to the people who buy data.
Now this is one part where I believe them. Public companies have strict controls on their investor relations. I can believe that they are going out of their way to keep their investor info separate from their user info. They will probably get fined by the SEC if they don't.
That doesn't make it a good investment, of course. I don't want to be King Steven's exit liquidity.
Yeah, I think they just want memestock-like bag holders, people invested in reddit "as a company/platform" who are unlikely to sell