Comment by [deleted] on 09/06/2021 at 18:23 UTC

3375 upvotes, 18 direct replies (showing 18)

View submission: Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts

I’m sure you will all have a ton of questions, and we will be here to answer them.

Here's an obvious one.... Why?

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Comment by NewDark90 at 09/06/2021 at 18:32 UTC

1157 upvotes, 8 direct replies

Almost every answer to the "why" question of what a company does is "because money".

Comment by [deleted] at 09/06/2021 at 22:19 UTC

250 upvotes, 1 direct replies

so weird. "We didn't take this decision lightly", but we won't tell you why.

"The power of reddit gifts has always been because of the community, not the software", so we are cancelling the already-working software in order to focus our efforts on unrelated software.

"No one can sign up for the gift exchange anymore, and it will end soon. Anyone who has an incomplete gift exchange will be permanently banned from the closed community that we are soon deleting."

This is the most blatant corporate double-speak I've heard in a long while.

Comment by hepatitisC at 09/06/2021 at 19:16 UTC

470 upvotes, 3 direct replies

we will be here to answer them.

An hour in.....not even one question was answered.

Comment by SigXL at 09/06/2021 at 19:21 UTC

177 upvotes, 1 direct replies

They won't answer a single question. The cowards never do.

Comment by ribnag at 10/06/2021 at 15:23 UTC

4 upvotes, 1 direct replies

"investing in the foundation[1] of our platform", of course!

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/nudfv1/the_rollout_of_reputation_service/

And nobody's even going to mention where that "foundation" link goes?

Authors: Qikai Wu, Jerroyd Moore and Melissa Cole

*Overview of Reputation Service** ...

*That's** the real steaming turd buried in this announcement. "So guys, we're killing Christmas, OhAndImplementingAChineseStyleSocialCreditSystem, and hey, does anyone else like puppies? I like puppies. Why do you hate puppies AndChineseStyleSocialCreditSystems?"

Comment by DoctorWaluigiTime at 09/06/2021 at 22:17 UTC

35 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Sort by Q&A: They ain't answering anything.

Comment by Alexhasskills at 10/06/2021 at 01:03 UTC

9 upvotes, 1 direct replies

How could they possibly have NOT answered this proactively. WTF.

Comment by Realtrain at 09/06/2021 at 19:08 UTC

11 upvotes, 0 direct replies

It didn't make them money for their IPO

Comment by mheat at 10/06/2021 at 12:36 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

They managed to write a whole paragraph without saying anything in regard to this question. The real reason is money.