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View submission: Testing a new concept with select subreddit partners
I am sorry I can't be more constructive, but this is the worst idea for new community tools I've heard in a long time. Did any moderators indicate they wanted this? This is a genuine question and I think we all deserve an answer on this front.
I understand the need to monetize, but linking community features to community wealth seems like a bad call on my part. This just makes clear that you value certain users and communities (i.e. the ones making you money) over others. I suppose that makes sense, but making it explicit isn't great.
Looking at the features experimented with over the last few years, I have no clue what direction you guys want to go in and it makes it hard to keep up. Are you competing with Facebook, Twitch, Discord, something else? I was an early adopter of the new interface, quietly ignored other new services like RPAN, but it is getting to the point where I have little interest in either participating in or managing communities while navigating new features.
Maybe I'm a bit of an old miser, but Reddit is a discussion board. Why does it need pay-to-play features?
There's nothing here!