So...they just bring back how gilding used to work? That's quite...innovative, for an AI.
146Yes, but now it's less accessible, costs more, and is less transparent so companies can astroturf easier.
But it's better because they're totally 100% looking at ways to share the revenue with the communities as soon as possible. Definitely one of the top priorities without a doubt.
159I just hate this corporate talk. I know they are lying, they know they are lying, so why not be honest for a change? That would be the very first step for me to even consider using reddit again.
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Why would they even do that T_T.
95They vastly overestimated their users' willingness to pay for content and put up with their bullshit.
92I could see cryptobros and the "investing" subs spending a lot on this. They were already buying tons of awards to hype themselves up.
Any unironic circlejerk cult will by buying these and pinning them on each other's chest, same as the dumbass awards.
I think reddit knows their target audience pretty well; Rubes. That's why they let all the toxic "stock", crypto-scam and political extremist subs stay open until the media starts writing stories about them. Gullible idiots spend a lot of money trying to make their opinions look smart and popular.
This will make Reddit a lot of money in the short-term, but probably push more legitimate/casual users away as these "premium upvotes" will surely effect the algorithm and push more nonsense into people's feeds.
Now that i think about it, this will probably help advertisers and political groups astroturf all of reddit.
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I just glazed over it but I'm pretty sure they took gold away and reintroduced it like this solely to get more people off the old desktop design and onto the mobile app
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Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar upvote
79Oh look the guy with the $50 upvote is responding to the guy who doesn't have any karma. Come on!
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- How is this different from how gold currently works?
- What is that about a $50 upvote?
58Back from Reddit, and here’s the deal.
1: based upon your karma earned per week, you get a share of all gold given to your account. They shared only that 100-4999 karma per week gives $.90 per gold and 5000-? gives $1.00 per gold.
This will literally destroy every single community with a deluge of spam. They implied that they had a new spam system but it’s Reddit, so it will be ineffective at best. What, have they been purposefully allowing spam for years to train identification just for this moment?
2: No clue. Hopefully just joking.
110The Reddit spam filter is god awful.
Research any product on Google and click on the reddit link. Nine times out of ten, the top comment will be added months, if not years, after the original post. It will contain a link to blogspam and somehow have 50+ points.
It's clear that it's just bot accounts. They buy votes and post it so late after the fact because it makes it less likely to be noticed by the mods.
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They get it wrong. If it is $50 to down vote someone by 50 people will do it.
51Can these reddit admin not talk like normal people for once?
49They have probably been replaced by an AI that was exclusively trained on clowns.
30They're probably trained to read off some template script for PR reasons
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And people will pay it. If there's anything I've learned over the past year, no matter how bad things get, some dumbass will pay. 99% of the population could be under water or on fire and that leftover 1% would still have guys trying to buy in game cosmetics and tipping Twitch streamers.
41Unlike reddit gold, tipping streamers actually makes sense, though. It's like throwing a couple bucks in the guitar case of a brusker...the person is entertaining you so you give them a few bucks as thanks. I don't do watch streams but I get it.
47This is how I view it too. I rarely spend money on twitch, but a sub or dono to someone who I’ve literally watched for hundreds of hours for essentially free doesn’t really seem like a problem to me.
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38Why does the image look like a synapse? Is that meant to illustrate Redditors' chemical dependence on Reddit Gold?
25It is undoubtedly a group of synapses with one about to get a big juicy golden dopamine hit. I feel like that was a spez request to marketing and design departments as a subtle way to laugh at how obviously overboard they can go and people will stay addicted.
I'm curious how the r/conspiracy sub is reacting, or not reacting.
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That's a fucking nonsense idea, but how else would they afford the crack that caused that idea to originate?
24Are you suggesting they bought crack on layaway?
2Well technically it's called getting it "fronted".
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Amazing. Wonder what new nonsense they'll focus on next to pump up their value for the IPO
23Wow they’re just digging upper and upper ain’t they.
Cheers, reddit. Good luck and that.
21It's like they're selling NFT's, yet somehow with an even lower value proposition.
"I want to pay money to support reposted content, that was already worthless and mediocre the first time round" — said no-one ever
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Comedy gold!
16A pie to the(ir) face, it never gets old
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Wow. They did not confirm the super votes affect the algorithm but if they do that's pretty shocking.
12100% AI responses. They're pretending reddit is active
8Wholesome 🦭
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