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I can't imagine they don't know. This is reddit embracing a pay-to-win mentality. Posts that have paid awards will have a competitive edge and be more likely to reach the top of the thread/sub.
This is going to lead to an era of influencers and paid shills. This could really be reddit's Digg moment. It will change the underlying power dynamic of the site in a substantial way.
Comment by WisejacKFr0st at 06/07/2020 at 21:31 UTC*
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There will never be a Digg moment on Reddit. Its userbase is too large and non-technical, I'd hazard a guess that most don't know how to crosspost. At least once a day I'll see a post with a new account OP that makes new comments on a thread rather than replying. I constantly see users misunderstanding what markdown is or even how tagging works. Sometimes they're even year+ old accounts.
Digg died due to structural changes that allowed powerusers to game the system and dominate the site even more. That's been happening on Reddit for years and years, even on the moderator level. I don't think the average user cares enough about the backend systems vs. their experience on the front end. The internet and forums have changed so much since Digg died that understanding how a site works from the perspective of a user isn't a thing anymore. People download an app and try to apply their knowledge of other apps to it, e.g: Twitter, Instagram, FB. New users just don't bother with learning the basics, much less the intricacies.
edit: grammar