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View submission: We heard you… awards are back!
This. It's amazing how little they still understand the community on their own site. Most people aren't here to try and earn money, especially with such a high threshold to reach to do so, and the amount of information you have to give them to join the program. You're just encouraging reposters and bots, while preventing people from participating in the giving of awards unless they spend actual cash, no matter how much they contribute to the site. It's misguided and greedy, which seems to pretty well sum up the people who run Reddit.
Comment by S4T4NICP4NIC at 15/05/2024 at 19:48 UTC
54 upvotes, 5 direct replies
It's amazing how little they still understand the community on their own site
Oh, they understand, they're just doing whatever makes them the most money. Shareholders rule, redditors drool.
Comment by WeaponizedKissing at 15/05/2024 at 23:57 UTC
18 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Most people aren't here to try and earn money
Doesn't matter. spez has stated that Twitter's monetisation model, where blue ticks get paid for interactions from other blue ticks that are tricked into engaging with their dogshit blue tick engagement bait posts, is a model he aspires to follow.
I guess reddit hasn't figured out a way to make gold-buyer comments be always pinned to the top without the site/userbase imploding, so there's not yet enough value in gold for the bots so the bots aren't paying for enough gold here yet, so we get this minor walkback to fill the gap until the bots pick up the slack.
Comment by Nyxelestia at 21/05/2024 at 04:20 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Most people aren't here to try and earn money
That's why they can't understand us. Tech bros and tech CEOs are just cannot understand people just enjoying things because *they* don't enjoy anything other than increasing the numbers in their bank accounts.