• metalingus
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    51 year ago

    Was there any indication something like this was coming?

    Also, I only learned last 1-2 months during the API fiasco that Reddit had some weird NFT thing going on… Are they just trying to find anything that will stick?

    • 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.

        • mrbubblesort
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          51 year ago

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

      • 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.