Reddit is getting rid of its Gold awards system
www.theverge.com
Reddit plans to replace it with something new.
  • drumino@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I think this is a shitty click bait title. Why not include the feature which is replaced in the title?

    But I guess thread creators hate this one simple trick.

  • Perry@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    So they have a bunch of users that have been freely paying them money for virtual coins that you can literally only use to display a few pixels of a gif next to a comment.

    Their absolute genius move towards profitability is then to forcibly stop making these people give them free money and also erase those virtual coins that they spent money on with absolutely no compensation whatsoever. Not even a shitty award or literally anything at all.

    It’s funny, I’m not sure if I should actually be impressed that they are not engaging in any marketing dark pattern whatsoever; they are just straight up alienating the people who were until now been practically giving them money for doing nothing.

  • Freeman@lemmy.pubEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Gold was always dumb. Why spend money on upvotes.

    The fact that people actually ever bought it (and said thank you for it) was super weird to me.

  • Techviator@infosec.pubEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    My thoughts: I don’t care! I am very happy with Lemmy and Kbin, so not going back there, thay can do whatever!

  • Candelestine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    I’m curious what their plan to improve the profitability is. I have a sneaking suspicion that whatever it ends up being, it’ll probably be unpopular.

    • LordXenu@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Why cut off a revenue stream now of all times. Why not just double down on micro transactions

      This has been such an odd saga to play out.

      • Candelestine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I think he’s trying to see if, maybe, instead of making one big change all at once and massively kicking the hornets nest, it’s better if he breaks it up into smaller kicks spread over time.

        So instead of replacing the old system wholesale, he takes it down, waits a bit, then installs the new one. See if that helps at all.

        It probably won’t.

  • roon@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    Guess they’re running out of their monopoly money

    Also why does the title of this post look like clickbait 😅

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    03·
    2 years ago

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