I tried to make a post, very simply "What are you working on?" in the /programming section and it got insta auto-modded and removed. Looks like it needs some polish.
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.