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Reddit kills awards and coins (old.reddit.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
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[–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

It's rumored that Reddit is about to launch a new "creator program" that will pay Redditors for high-karma activity on the site. This change is probably meant to accommodate this new feature.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    how is paying people going to "keep them profit oriented til profits arrive"?

    how could they even have the cashflow to support that? money isn't free anymore

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    how could they even have the cashflow to support that?

    I'm guessing new deals with advertisers. These changes will incentivize more neutral, advertiser-friendly comments on their platform. I imagine that's going to make them more lucrative to advertisers going forward, so that their ads are shown next to harmless memes instead of bad-faith political arguments in cat pic subreddits.

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