Makes sense to remove things that people can boycott. They have a graph on someone’s computer where income from awards points straight down. That looks really bad for potential buyers so it’s better to remove it and claim the dip was intentional.
Just when you think the dumpster fire can’t possibly burn any brighter, u/spez comes running with a barrel of gasoline.
I am actually okay with this. Now what are all of the gilding farmers going to do? Oh no…anyways.
I really wonder what @ChristianSelig thinks of this
Lol. This venkman guy claims credit for creating the awards when it was reddit users who started the semi-ironic (and free) Reddit Gold shit.
a new direction for awarding that allows redditors to empower one another and create more meaningful ways to reward high-quality contributions
Lmao wut
I’m enjoying being able to watch that ship sink from far away.
Shocker. Reddit has been going out of its way for years to run itself into the ground. Honestly if I had known about Lemmy a while back I’d have come here instead. I started messing about on reddit when I was 18. I am now 31. I’ve seen that website grow through so many stages and each one was actively worse than the next.
I’m not remotely surprising that they’ve decided to reneg on absolutely everything, including paid services.
Why is everyone so negative? Good on them for killing some stupid feature that nobody really liked. Yes, they’ll bring another even worse feature but luckily no one here is impacted by that.
Man. What the actual hell is Reddit doing? They’ve been making the most suicidal business decisions this year. Blocking third party apps, they piss off a huge active portion of their user base but sure, you could say they weren’t paying anyway. But now they’re screwing over their PAYING users? I don’t even know what they expect at this point.
Banning coins that people paid for, hmm something is fishy and since the announcement they just nuked all my accounts. For ban evasion on main page sub that I never visit. I said F it and I’m here now. I have a nasty feeling that they are going to ban all the porn pre IPO. Some of my accounts were mods on some NSFW subs that weren’t too big. Start small and work your way up from there.
They can go the way of Tumblr/Digg/Etc I’m done.
I will be curious if they nuked my accounts at work. I have never cross pollinated between machines (no upvote/comments between work/home). If I do have bans then they might be using AI to look for common misspelling/writing patterns/ect
I feel they’re gonna replace it with some blockchain/crypto BS.
Twitter and Reddit seem bent on crashing popular social media sites. If they vanished completely tomorrow along with Facebook, what would be left?
I don’t care about awards that much but Redditors certainly do so it will have a negative impact.
I never knew how any of that stuff worked and never cared… until I made a dumb comment and someone gave me an award for it. Dammit, I was proud. But I still feel sour about the API changes, to the point where I don’t care what they do. Maybe drive more people out to other platforms. I’d like to see some of my Fandom communities migrate to other places.
