-35 upvotes, 4 direct replies (showing 4)
View submission: We heard you… awards are back!
Thanks for sharing your concerns – we’re right alongside you in wanting to keep communities safe and prevent misuse of awards. Awards will be available in general mental health support subreddits like r/adhd, and anyone will have the ability to report a post or comment that shouldn’t receive awards based on our Contributor Monetization Policy. These reports go to the Reddit Safety team for review, where they’ll determine to approve or remove.
Mods will also have the option to remove an award from a specific comment or post if it has been reported. If your mod team decides to remove the reported award, that award is disabled on that comment or post completely, removed from the leaderboard, and cannot be purchased.
It’s still early days in this re-introduction of awards, and we’ll keep your feedback in mind as we plan ahead.
Comment by nerdshark at 15/05/2024 at 19:51 UTC
68 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Don't give me this form response bullshit. I got *literally* the same response from /u/SmEllen_Fresh just minutes ago.[1] Reddit is exposing our community to significant risk of harm:
This isn't just about misuse. We have a significant issue with harmful advice and misinformation being submitted to /r/adhd, and we're not able to catch all of it. We just aren't. This change means that there will now be opportunities for people to get paid for comments advocating for alternative medicine or dangerous practices, and it's guaranteed that some will slip past us. It's very likely that some will be awarded by our users. Awards will lend these kinds of comments a veneer of credibility, and that is more harmful than anything. If this change occurs as you say, we will act to remove all awarded comments regardless of their content.
Comment by YumariiWolf at 17/05/2024 at 09:16 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
You just aren’t too smart, are you?
Comment by Ummgh23 at 17/05/2024 at 18:18 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
How tone deaf can you be?
Comment by thetwist1 at 18/05/2024 at 07:52 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Can you give an option to subreddits to turn off awards then? Because you are risking doing real harm to these support communities that people rely on. It comes off as completely soulless that you are going to let people gild hate speech and misinformation for profit.