- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
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- technology@lemmy.world
Wake up baby, a new money laundering scheme just launched.
Waiting for the next Spiff video
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
So Reddit is actually moving away from NSFW, I guess it changed significantly over the last decade with OF ads.
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”
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.
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?
What do you mean? You get a .75¢ discount per 25. VaLuE!
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.
You have earned $5.13 last month, bravo!
You can cash out when you have earned {roundup(earned * 2.0)}
Thank you {username}
Yeah exactly, this is just going to tank the quality even further.
Christ…
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oh great lets make reposting bullshit even more attractive by letting folks make money along with their internet points
Man they are getting really desperate…
Totally won’t be abused by people reposting gilded comments and posts.
*bots reposting gilded comments and posts in massive quantities
Yes. Adding a financial incentive to saying whatever everyone already wants to hear, is a brilliant idea that will definitely encourage genuine discussion.
(see Elon’s twitter for recent example).
Copying Xitter I see. Not that they are doing any better financially.
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.
Its all part of the ensimpification of the internet
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
Ah nice.
Another Elon style pyramid scheme.
Spez worships Musk
All new scams!
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 becomealways 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”?
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.
Lmao what could possibly go wrong