The new more edgy five-o-clock shadow Reddit.
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I appreciate your commitment to inclusion.
Hatred of reddit is accepted by all
“Fingering supports the contributors you love.”
…so they got rid of awards in favor of adding arrow shaped awards?
The “levels” doesn’t even make any sense, a splink of different color?
What a lol.
“Supports the creators” makes me think they have a revenue split and they got rid of the old system to prevent people from not knowing the difference
Yeah this also conveniently happens after they made everyone’s Reddit Gold invalid. Pretty damn shady if you ask me.
Is this real?
Yeah:
Giving gold supports the creators you love
I’m not going back to Reddit to find the answer but does any of this money actually go to the creators of the post that gets gold?
If they get at least 10 gold awarded to them within 12 months, and meet the karma/yr threshold, and stay in “good standing” , and aren’t nsfw, and any number of the other thresholds Reddit could use to say no, then they might get ~50% of the price paid to award it. Otherwise Reddit just keeps it all.
Investors be like
They don’t get money, they get exposure which is more valuable than money anyway /s in case it wasn’t obvious
Exposure is something people can die from.
Like Paul Smith who lives in Wegstraße 42, 12345 Berlin, Germany. He blocked me but don’t send him death threats because of it.
Support as in the ‘stroke the ego’ sense not ‘help financially put food on the table and heat their home’ sense
I would really like to see lemmy add a ‘direct donation’ button to post and comments that links to their paypal or whatever. I think throwing a dollar or two directly at the person who made the comment or post you really liked is an infinitely better way to support them than throwing that money at a company so that they can award a shiny digital icon above the post.
While I like the sentiment, in reality I think it would do the same thing as it’s doing on Reddit - turn Lemmy into a huge bot farm trying to get money from real users.
No
They’re paying the user this money or this is just for a fancy little icon next to the post like reddit gold used to be?
It’s literally just reddit currency for their shitty premium
~~Oh, just more bullshit then. Thanks for clarifying. ~~
Edit: they do pay out cash for gold, but they keep most of it.
Not sure why the others are lying - disliking a platform is not a reason for spreading misinformation.
They are paying eligible users based on karma and gold.
Of course, the program is more of a “see, we have something” than a proper revenue share because of the “get at least 10 gold” criterium and all the other hoops you have to jump through.
In all my years in reddit I only got gold once. The prerequisites of needing 10 is just bonkers.
After 10 years, approaching a million comment karma, and many sourced write-ups and copy pastas I got a fair amount. Probably 200 of a mixture of gold and the occasional platinum. This was concentrated in later years as I better understood reddit, and understood specific audiences more. I strove to give genuinely good information, too.
Unfortunately reddit’s admins are lazy, suck, and some subs’ moderators even worse (looking at r/news) and they screwed me. Their loss. I’ll find another platform to publish content, like here of course and elsewhere.
Right, so in a good year, you’d have gotten some beer money from it. And in return, you’d have to give reddit your real name and credit card information.
This is honestly even more pathetic than I ever imagined it could have been. Reddit is trying to emulate the “influencer” model from other social media, but doesn’t want to actually pony up cash to do it. YouTube has bought Mr Beast like six(?) houses at this point. Reddit won’t even buy your friends a round at the local pub.
I usually get “gold” by complaining about how admins / employees can give it out for free to drum up interest.
My biggest gold events were saying “don’t buy gold” during Paomageddon. To think, I would have almost gotten enough money to cover the Uber ride to the bank!
Nah makes perfect sense, they don’t wanna have to pay out.
Did you follow niche subs? I noticed when I was more active in default subs, I got gold more often. As the default subs got less bearable and I shifted towards smaller communities, I barely got gold anymore.
Or maybe the quality of my posts just became shit.
Depends if I was just looking to karma whore or just shitpost for fun. When I was trying I could easily rack up karma. But even so it’s a lot of work.
Thank you for the correct answer! I would have gone on believing a lie had you not responded. Here’s their payout table:
Contributor Tier Karma (Over 12 mo period) Payout Rate (Dollars per Gold) Minimum Gold for payout Non-contributor 0-99 Karma No payout; balance rolls over n/a Contributor 100-4999 Karma $0.90 per 1 Gold 10 Top contributor 5000+ Karma $1.00 per 1 Gold 10 So they charge $2.69-$66.99 for gilding and only give the contributor $0.90-$1, keeping the rest. Wow, sounds like a shit deal.
I think the higher amounts in OP’s pic are multiples of “gold” (with $66.99 being 25 gold) and assume the payout would change per gold for what seems like a different currency than what that table is for (where 1 gold is $1.99 USD).
All that said, Reddit hasn’t really given any reason to give them the benefit of the doubt here, either, so it could very well be $1 per award no matter the amount paid for it.
So basically this will give a very small handful of gallowboob-scale karma whores maybe a thousand dollars a year.
Assuming users are willing to pay for comments. I’d expect far fewer awards to be handed out now that they cost dollars.
So, i just assume reddit is new onlyfans now
I’m not one for circle jerking but reddit is objectively becoming a shittier platform
Remember to always tip your celebrities for promoting whatever dumb projects on on your Internet forums, god knows we could use the money.
spoiler
THAT WAS SARCASM
Yeah but can we get back to talking about I Don’t Even Remember The Name Oh Wait Rampart
You mean Barbie, right?
Because my movies are the only commercial interests permitted on Lemmy. Look at the banner of this community!
Turning Reddit into a career
A repost bot’s dream
Fuck all that Reddit shit
This is off topic, but why isn’t there an animated gif of Bugs Bunny saying the “NO”? I mean, we have animated gifs for almost everything else, but I only see this as a static pic. Can no one find the cartoon that this is from and create a gif from it?
It is because the cartoon in which the frame is from he doesn’t actually say no. The frame is taken just after he chugs a whole bottle of “Hare Tonic” https://youtu.be/uuKiqu3g_sE
It’s super not obvious to me when the frame happens.
What’s the time mark for the frame?
At about 0:30, just before Bugs brings the bottle to his lips. It’s rotated from the original head-back position, which is why the video is rotated.
I was thinking it had to be a moment like that, but couldn’t quite catch it.
Appreciate the assist!
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/uuKiqu3g_sE
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Musk must have come up with the idea. Wait, there’s no $4.20 option, so maybe not.
Le 420xXx69 connoisseurs
Well clicking #69 was a little NSFW
First time I’ve noticed a hashtag as a Lemmy user.
Mine didn’t create a clickable link, did it?
Interesting idea, make the users pay to effectively moderate posts in a positive way, this won’t have large ramifications with what’s on the front page /s.
Reddit heard “mods are unpaid” and found a way to charge them.
