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View submission: [OC] Price of Reddit Awards
Why do people pay money for these things?
Comment by darksier at 05/07/2020 at 16:39 UTC
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People like to give small gifts and tokens of appreciation to people that make their day better. The offputting part would be dependent on how you view digital goods.
I view these sorts of digital badges as utterly worthless, even more worthless than a Halmark Thank You card. So I tend to view this practice as particularly exploitative of producers of content. Akin to a venue taking 100% of a performer's tips under the excuse "there's no cover charge".