This looks like Spez&co are attempting to implement a way for users (Probably Corporations, Influencers & Celebrities, let's be honest) to monetise their audience on Reddit. Frankly it goes against everything Reddit was supposed to be, but unfortunately they've made it very clear they don't exactly give a shit about the end-user any more, so I'm not at all surprised.
Odd coincidence again? Twitter announced the same, but just for right wing personalities for now. We sure spez isn't elon?
He wants to be, he has his head so far up the Muskrats arse he can smell the back of Elon's teeth.
One of the things that drives Reddit as a social media platform is the anonymity.
Once you start tying monetization mechanisms to pay users for content, similar to YouTube or Instagram, you lose the anonymity.
Reddit is already walking the path to destroy everything that made it a different social media platform.
they are trying to profit off of the old content while converting to an Instagram/tiktok/Facebook-like fully monetized platform.
Looked it up, apparently someone datamined something out of the app that said you could earn money for getting karma/gold on posts.
Fake internet points are finally worth something!
Now redditors can earn real money for their contributions to the Reddit community, based on the karma and gold they've been given.
How it works:
* Redditors give gold to posts, comments, or other contributions they think are really worth something.
* Eligible contributors that earn enough karma and gold can cash out their earnings for real money.
* Contributors apply to the program to see if they're eligible.
* Top contributors make top dollar. The more karma and gold contributors earn, the more money they can receive.
This is absolutely going to get gamed to hell if it really happens. It also reeks of desperation.
If they aren’t going to pay mods who are they planning to pay to make sure bots aren’t gaming the system? This is going to fail hard and we’ll see another influx of disgruntled migrants when they take it away.
This is Reddit we're talking about here. You pretty much get three outcomes:
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People want the feature
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The feature happens at all
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It's given the proper amount of thought and oversight
Pick 1
It's also guaranteed to be subject to mod corruption. You think a mod won't remove posts so their's or an alt/friend hits top page more frequently? Not that I think most mods and users are that kind of person, but capitalism corrupts, and a lack of profit motive was a huge thing that kept most communities together and friendly, because karma was basically just monopoly money.
Genius, a direct financial incentive to maximize the imaginary internet points, surely there's no way this will just make karma farming bot problem so much worse.
Capitalists are so fucking dumb.
And it's US only. Great idea to encourage the site to have an even more US-centric point of view on everything.
i sort of want to signup just to see if they'll let me in, i accumulated a lot of karma due to loneliness
but this inevitably opens things up to sponsored posts right? having this sect of posters means they have an audience
I give it a few weeks til they announce reddit coin or something ridiculous.
Your votes become karma which you can exchange for reddit coin. Or buy! Or trade to use to promote your posts!
It'll quickly become the newspaper. We all know how well they're doing.
They already announced that they are doing away with awards and gold. So I think you're right.
So what Instagram did? They monetised Reels.
And we all know what shitty place Instagram Reels is, well in my country it is.
I haven't touched anything to do with Meta since I quit Facebook in 2016. What's Instagram reels?
Short vertical videos that are up to 60 seconds long.
Damn you must’ve noticed someone doomscroll on Instagram.
So can I get money for all that comment karma I built up over the years? Are they only counting post karma warned after signing up?
Almost makes me wish I didn't delete my 100k+ karma account, I might've gotten contributor on it and sold it to a chinese bot farm for primo dollars.