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Just a note on awards, I hope whatever new system in place allows gifting premium, because I believe that made a lot of sense (perhaps more so than paying users real money)
Take r/NewToReddit for example, often at the end of the year, any user who regularly provided outstanding help to Reddit users would get an award. With premium perks like ad-free browsing, that enables the recipient to continue helping other users. You provide excellent contributions on Reddit, and get awarded not by money, but by the ability to more effectively continue to contribute. It's a nice cycle, I find.
Also, I assume that receiving real money is not an option for users without a bank account, i.e Reddit users that are not adults, and that's in addition to how the current gold was limited to paying USA citizens, at least for a time. I'm sure there's plenty of users without their own bank accounts that deserve the same recognition. Feels a lot more fair that way to at least have the option of gifting premium since that's a gift all Reddit users can use and benefit from, not just adults in certain regions of the world.
I'm sure that might "discourage" people from buying premium themselves if it were gifted, but I believe that anything that'd encourage a user to continue contributing positively to Reddit is something to be sought after, because content also brings in money for Reddit.
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