It’s all part of a new “Contributor Program.”
  • _number8_@lemmy.world
    211·
    9 months ago

    Reddit will offer six different purchase options for awarding gold, starting at a $1.99 option to buy one gold and going up to $49 for 25 gold. After you give your gold, you’ll see what Reddit calls a “golden upvote” next to the comment or post.

    fuck you

    I asked Reddit why it didn’t let people transfer over their coins to spend in the new system. “In the past, there were both paid and free coins that had been distributed, making it incredibly challenging,” spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt said. “After a lot of consideration, we determined it was better to start from scratch.”

    fuck you

    Gold can be given to posts and comments, unless they include sexual content, content with graphic violence, or feature certain mature themes (e.g., alcohol, gambling). In addition, gold cannot be awarded on content posted in a Not Safe for Work (NSFW), quarantined, or trauma support community.

    fuck you

    • Briongloid@aussie.zone
      8·
      9 months ago

      So Reddit is actually moving away from NSFW, I guess it changed significantly over the last decade with OF ads.

      • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        9 months ago

        Someone probably figured out that the optics of allowing minors on a site which has a massive onlyfans ad presence (like, most of the NSFW now) miggggghtttt appear as if the site is creating a “high school to porn” pipeline, and that’s going to be a bad look if the media ever takes notice.

        Honestly, I’m shocked this hasn’t happened yet. It was creepy enough to have minors on a site which was half porn before most of that porn was legitimately “now that I’m 18 I can finally show you my butthole”

        • MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world
          4·
          9 months ago

          Don’t forget the -military propaganda -alcohol -gambling

          ads which CONSTANTLY showed up for me (though I am not interested in any of them). Reddit is really a sick site when you think about it. Targeting the youth with the worst bullshit like the tobacco companies used to do.

    • Enigma@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Wait, so buying more gold doesn’t even offer you a discount? Isn’t it usually the opposite so the devs or whoever can attract more people to buy pricier stuff?

  • ShadowRam@kbin.social
    17·
    9 months ago

    Bots and Spam for fake internet points,

    Now going to throw real money at it?

    I didn’t think the bots and spam could get worse, but it will be.

  • Stern@lemmy.world
    11·
    9 months ago

    oh great lets make reposting bullshit even more attractive by letting folks make money along with their internet points

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
    9·
    9 months ago

    Yes. Adding a financial incentive to saying whatever everyone already wants to hear, is a brilliant idea that will definitely encourage genuine discussion.

  • dan@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    9 months ago

    So Reddit is now a camgirl site, but instead of weird simps paying girls to show their tits it’s weird simps paying other weird simps to… post shit?

    This seems like a bad idea.

    • Uranium3006@kbin.social
      2·
      9 months ago

      I wonder how much money laundering will occur because of this. I can also see any community discussing anything even remotely illegal that one could buy getting banned because of people using this feature to commit crimes and the shit admins overreacting because of it

  • Metal Zealot@lemmy.ml
    4·
    9 months ago

    They must have some good shovels, to digg a hole so deep for themselves. I can’t imagine Reddit will ever recover. It will become bot plagued like Twitter has become always was, and lose all semblance or its former self.

    What’s with the trend of major corporations taking turns turning themselves to shit? Can’t these CEO’s see the public backlash and tell themselves “Shit, lets not do what they did”?

    • ColonelPanic@lemm.ee
      2·
      9 months ago

      Money.

      Every one of these companies has the exact same target, which is to make more money for their shareholders than the previous quarter at the expense of everything else.

      When a company is small and not making as much it’s easier to make little changes to increase capital, but as the company gets larger and they run out of avenues to extract cash from they start getting more and more desperate and their tactics get more and more obvious.

      I’ve just left a company for this exact reason, as their little cash grabbing exercises were starting to impact employees and they were making cuts all over the place in order to keep up the illusion of growth.

      These CEOs don’t think about the impact that new policies make, they just see more money not being extracted.