582 upvotes, 11 direct replies (showing 11)
View submission: [OC] Price of Reddit Awards
What a pile of useless crap awards. Do we really need hundreds of different awards? What good do they do anyway other than giving money to reddit?
Edit : I'm not undermining OPs post, I think it's nice someone trying to explain the confusing award system. Just saying I do not see the point of having more than 3/4 awards, and also I don't understand people going crazy giving awards, many times for things that end up being fake, like the infamous case of the cancer kid
Comment by [deleted] at 05/07/2020 at 13:48 UTC
116 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The people who buy them like variety. If they get bored, they stop buying. Reddit appeases them to keep the revenue going.
Comment by musicninja at 05/07/2020 at 14:47 UTC
50 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Most of the time I can't even see what an award is because it's too small. Then if I click on it to try and find out, it just takes me to the sub's gilded posts.
Comment by StevenXSG at 05/07/2020 at 12:26 UTC
14 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It does show how under valued having too many awards is. What ever was wrong with just having 1 or 2?
Comment by ILOVEBOPIT at 05/07/2020 at 15:51 UTC
19 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Not to mention that most of the new ones are just “inside Reddit jokes” which is cringey as fuck.
Comment by gabbergandalf667 at 05/07/2020 at 14:50 UTC
20 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Hm, you don't seem to have the constant burning itch to consume product that normal people feel. Please get checked out for that.
Comment by SingleLensReflex at 05/07/2020 at 17:03 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Reddit is a company, why would they be expected to anything for any reason but to make themselves more money?
Comment by TheHapster at 05/07/2020 at 17:01 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I mean, it’s either that or reddit begs us for money every time we use the site like wikipedia does.
Comment by ughlump at 05/07/2020 at 19:03 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The fire one is the only one that seemed worthwhile. Everything else just seems meh.
Comment by ssracer at 05/07/2020 at 20:11 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
For those that don't care about the shinies, this is also on your user page:
you have helped pay for 5.20 days of reddit server time.
gifts on your behalf have helped pay for 15.39 hours of reddit server time.
Comment by Jacio9 at 05/07/2020 at 20:24 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I've chosen to not update my app ever since they introduced these eyesores
Sure it means some things are broken on my end, but i'm living a blissfully ignorant life over here
Comment by Avia_NZ at 05/07/2020 at 23:23 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Agreed, there was nothing wrong with just silver and gold. *Maybe* platinum but after that it just got silly.