Reworking Awarding: Changes to Awards, Coins, and Premium
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Hi all, I’m u/venkman01 from the Reddit product team, and I’m here to give everyone an early look at the future of how redditors award (and...
  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I just said this yesterday or two days ago when they announced they were going to start paying people for content, but it truly is amazing how Reddit can find another significant thing that will hurt them as a business and move forward with it.

    It seems like they’d run out of things that could significantly hurt their business, they just keep finding something else.

    Soon they’re going to be down to basic features, And they’ll be like hey look so hyperlinks don’t work anymore. And then that’ll be the end of the press release.

    Their “business decisions” are insane right now.

    It’s very difficult to see this procession of self-mutilation technologically in another light other than deliberate corporate suicide. Like is someone going to benefit if Reddit goes bankrupt? Is that what’s happening?

    • gsa32@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Reddit’s incompetence is so mind-blowing it’s unreal. Even a crackhead can manage Reddit better than spez

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        It’s truly shocking. Like all the Twitter stuff that musk is doing, seems in some way connected to his ego and they seem like genuine mistakes that he’s making because he’s completely out of touch and an a******.

        But with Reddit, it’s like I can’t follow the logic of these decisions at all, I can’t tie back these obvious blunders to any sort of logical troubleshooting decision making process for their company.

        Perplexing

        • TWeaK@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          The logic is to destabilise public forums ahead of upcoming elections, so the wealthy can consolidate more power.

    • AzPsycho@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I think that’s actually closer to the mark than many realize. Awards are great when they are not directed at the company or it’s rep in a negative manner as they show positive engagement and help the company with sales marketing. When awards and upvote/downvote counters are used to highlight that the users are having a negative experience then it hurts the platform image. Similarly to how YouTube removed the downvote tracker because their marketing team realized it hurt their sales revenue with business partners.

  • LCP@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I found Reddit Gold and Discord Nitro’s gifting systems to be smart ways of monetization.

    There are people who, despite what you try, cannot or will not pay you. Gifting allows you to keep the people that positively contribute on your platform while still earning money from elsewhere.

    Amazing how swiftly they’re progressing with their enshittification. Makes me re-think all those 9 years spent there.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Dont worry… They are replacing this with almost direct monetary contributions.

      There was a leak about how contributors will be able to earn money from updoots.