7738 upvotes, 8 direct replies (showing 8)
View submission: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts
Translation - we weren't making enough money off this to be worth out time & effort
Comment by PM_ME_WHITE_GIRLS_ at 09/06/2021 at 20:20 UTC
194 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I read it as more like "We're gonna work on things that bring us money instead of stuff that makes the community happy"
Comment by 8_Miles_8 at 10/06/2021 at 00:59 UTC
15 upvotes, 0 direct replies
u/kickme444, the original creator before Reddit turned it into a moneymaking scheme, is creating a new one. Go to r/newsecretsanta.
Comment by [deleted] at 09/06/2021 at 18:26 UTC
276 upvotes, 3 direct replies
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Comment by ihahp at 09/06/2021 at 19:14 UTC
19 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I mean, they had full time employees dedicated to it, right? Def seems like something weird to dedicate resources to when it didn't make them any money directly (AFAIK)
Comment by Bread_the_god at 09/06/2021 at 21:23 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Thank you I was having a hard time understanding what they meant
Comment by scarabic at 10/06/2021 at 14:15 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
To be fair, they need lots of money to buy and kill your favorite app client so you’re forced to use their awful app, which shows more ads. /s
Comment by baltinerdist at 10/06/2021 at 03:38 UTC
-9 upvotes, 2 direct replies
So, I’m not trying to r/hailcorporate on this, but... yeah. That’s literally how a business works.
People have built community on Reddit but Reddit itself is not the community. Reddit is a for-profit corporation beholden to a board and investors paying salaries and server costs and taxes and leases.
I always have a hard time getting why every time Reddit does something that is clearly and patently designed to make them more money, the user base goes absolutely bananas as if Reddit has somehow started a new department dedicated to kicking puppies.
You know those huge donations big corporations make to charities? It’s so they can pay less taxes. You know those awareness campaigns Coke does about how their bottles are recycled? It’s so you see a Coke bottle and want to buy a Coke. Almost no for-profit company makes decisions that are legitimately and entirely self-sacrificial. If that was the case, you’d never hear about them. The fact that you know Costco pays their employees really well is because A. they need to hire folks and it costs more to train new employees all the time than just keep them around and B. it makes you more likely to shop there because you think them ethical, so they want you to know that.
I have stuff in my house right now I got from secret Santa. Does it suck that it’s going away? Sure. But why would anyone be surprised?
Comment by goldmin5 at 11/06/2021 at 20:52 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Nice work