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View submission: The NewToReddit Encyclopaedia Redditica v2
When you receive an award from a fellow Redditor, you should receive a Notification in your Inbox that says something like this:
1: https://www.reddit.com/premium
There will be a short list of the benefits (if any) to your award, followed by instructions on how to use your Coins (if you were awarded any):
Finally, there will be an opportunity to reply to whoever awarded you:
However, in early 2021, Reddit started to direct award notifications to Direct Chat which came with its own set of problems[2] and by mid 2021 it was the case that awards could sometimes be given or received with no notification whatsoever, leaving no opportunity for thanks or other acknowledgement. This is an ongoing issue[3] and very frustrating for me as in November as part of a celebration I gave out over 30 gold awards with many of their recipients having no idea where they came from - or even ever having had them. For some people that was a week of free premium lost in the ether. I’ll think more than twice before doing that again.
2: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/ng2txt/help_note_with_an_award_is_showing_up_in_chat/
With few exceptions (the free awards), if you get a Reddit award, the awarder will have spent hard-earned or even purchased Reddit coins to give it. You will, no doubt want to thank them, but this shouldn’t be done by editing your awarded post, because the awarder won’t see that acknowledgement.
When I receive an award from a fellow Redditor and receive a notification, I always say thank you for whatever award it is. Reddit has a thing about “saying thanks is lame” at times. Saying thanks is NOT “lame”, and should be done more IMHO. Awards can be given anonymously, and most are. Even so, you can still thank them by responding to the Award Notification. “Thanks for the Gold, kind stranger!” or “Thanks for the award, Kind Redditor” are the traditional responses. Reddit loves traditions.
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