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

    ...so they got rid of awards in favor of adding arrow shaped awards?

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    “Supports the creators” makes me think they have a revenue split and they got rid of the old system to prevent people from not knowing the difference

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    [–] 196 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    🖕🖕🏻🖕🏼🖕🏽🖕🏾🖕🏿

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  • [–] 77 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 64 points 2 years ago* (9 children)

    Giving gold supports the creators you love

    I'm not going back to Reddit to find the answer but does any of this money actually go to the creators of the post that gets gold?

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  • [–] 73 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    If they get at least 10 gold awarded to them within 12 months, and meet the karma/yr threshold, and stay in "good standing" , and aren't nsfw, and any number of the other thresholds Reddit could use to say no, then they might get ~50% of the price paid to award it. Otherwise Reddit just keeps it all.

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  • [–] 76 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Remember to always tip your celebrities for promoting whatever dumb projects on on your Internet forums, god knows we could use the money.

    spoiler

    THAT WAS SARCASM

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    [–] 64 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm not one for circle jerking but reddit is objectively becoming a shittier platform

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

    I feel like all of them kinda are

    Youtube and Discord conveniently added user tags for no reason literally the moment Twitter went down the already pretty deep hole.

    Twitch's favorite pastime is making bank on "unrelated" content

    Facebook is just Facebook

    Reddit has been constantly losing its appeal every year ever since they moved off the old layout.

    Everyone adding/changing things in some meager attempt to drive profits and value without considering effects of user loss because social media is such an oligopoly it doesn't matter.

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    [–] 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Love the desperate grab for revenue prior to IPO.

    Too bad the ransomware is getting leaked as soon as they announce the IPO date.

    Spez, you done played yourself.

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    When I used to have gold to gild, I would always give it to the stupidest comment, like the most childish shit ever, if you had a poop joke or something, I'd give you gold, most of the time people would join in and gild the dumb comment.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    They're paying the user this money or this is just for a fancy little icon next to the post like reddit gold used to be?

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Not sure why the others are lying - disliking a platform is not a reason for spreading misinformation.

    https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/17331620007572-What-is-the-Contributor-Program-and-how-can-I-participate-

    They are paying eligible users based on karma and gold.

    Of course, the program is more of a "see, we have something" than a proper revenue share because of the "get at least 10 gold" criterium and all the other hoops you have to jump through.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    Thank you for the correct answer! I would have gone on believing a lie had you not responded. Here's their payout table:

    Contributor Tier Karma (Over 12 mo period) Payout Rate (Dollars per Gold) Minimum Gold for payout
    Non-contributor 0-99 Karma No payout; balance rolls over n/a
    Contributor 100-4999 Karma $0.90 per 1 Gold 10
    Top contributor 5000+ Karma $1.00 per 1 Gold 10

    So they charge $2.69-$66.99 for gilding and only give the contributor $0.90-$1, keeping the rest. Wow, sounds like a shit deal for everyone but Reddit.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    In all my years in reddit I only got gold once. The prerequisites of needing 10 is just bonkers.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    After 10 years, approaching a million comment karma, and many sourced write-ups and copy pastas I got a fair amount. Probably 200 of a mixture of gold and the occasional platinum. This was concentrated in later years as I better understood reddit, and understood specific audiences more. I strove to give genuinely good information, too.

    Unfortunately reddit's admins are lazy, suck, and some subs' moderators even worse (looking at r/news) and they screwed me. Their loss. I'll find another platform to publish content, like here of course and elsewhere.

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    [–] 42 points 2 years ago

    Fuck all that Reddit shit

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Imagine the person (or more likely a whole group) who has spent weeks designing and iterating over those arrows.

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wait are they charging people for upvoteing

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    It's what the old gold used to be. They rebranded it and added a tiny incentive for content creators (like a dollar per gold, regardless of the level of gold, once you reach a certain karma level)

    Really it's just shittier reddit gold and another way reddit is trying to make money off of colorful arrows

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

    Turning Reddit into a career

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

    This is off topic, but why isn't there an animated gif of Bugs Bunny saying the "NO"? I mean, we have animated gifs for almost everything else, but I only see this as a static pic. Can no one find the cartoon that this is from and create a gif from it?

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    It's definitely intentional that half of the #prices have #69 in it right?

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    What a bunch of scumbags

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