• Chozo
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    91 year ago

    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.

    • density
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      21 year ago

      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

      • Chozo
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        31 year 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.

      • mrbubblesort
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        41 year ago

        Instead what they’ll get is a metric shitton of bots trying to game the system, further tanking the site