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Reddit's Contributor Program could earn you real money for your Reddit karma (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
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Reddit could be working on a Contributor program, letting top contributors earn real-world money from the gold and karma they receive.

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[–] 12 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Won’t this just cause a ton of spam and meaningless discussions?

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

    Pretty sure that's exactly what they want. Those are way more neutral/marketable qualities to advertisers than "Sometimes your ad will be shown next to a 10-page, expletive-ridden tirade about poop-knives, and no, they won't explain what it is".

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

    In the short term, yes. And in the context of them trying for an IPO, that's probably what they want. But it absolutely will kill the site in the end because no one actually wants to hang out in an ad riddled wasteland.

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

    I'm still on Facebook because of that's how I keep up with friends I no longer live near, but you know what Facebook has been loath to show me recently? Posts from my friends. Easily 75% of my feed is sponsored or "recommended" content. If they're not going to show me the one and only thing I come to the site to see, I might as well not come to the site.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Food for the AI. This is where the money is.

    Look at a big sub of reddit: today it's made of one liners that we collapsed. This is worthless to an AI.

    Would you ask questions to an AI if it gave you a reddit like answer? No.

    They want the content creators, and the content is in the comments.

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