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Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 3 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards::Reddit, which is still dealing with the fallout from its last controversial decision, said it plans to phase out coins and awards.

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[–] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Especially taking things away from people who prepaid for those things

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    People that are wasteful enough to prepay for that kind of nonsense sort of have it coming to them. Still, I agree that it's not nice to do that. However, I have more important things to worry about.

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

    Sometimes prepaying is the more frugal option, since there's usually a discount for buying in bulk. As of January of this year, I wouldn't have believed you if you had told me that Reddit was going to do something so egregious that I would permanently stop browsing there.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago

    Any kind of paying for this kind of junk, whether it's prepay or not, is a waste of money and people should just stop doing it. There are far better things to do with money than to buy some digital thing-a-ma-bob that is useless and can disappear any old time at the whim of the web site owner. I mean, I could make the same argument about knickknacks, because they're silly and collect dust. However, a web site can't remove them from your house. So, even a knickknack that collects dust is a better purchase than digital coins and awards and all that other bullshit.

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