Aren't the awards as meaningless as a person's karma total?
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2025
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A users total karma being above a threshold made you able to comment in some communities
If i remember correctly, awards give you karma, helping you pass that threshold
They are as meaningless as each other because both serve the same purpose
I feel similarly about video game achievements. At the end of the day their purpose seems only to get players to engage more with the game by incentivizing you to play in ways you otherwise would not.
I realized this once while grinding in NG+ to fill out a skill tree just so that achievement would pop and I could quit the game.
I dislike video game achievements for this also.
If you’re playing a game just to fill a checklist so you can be done with it, why are you even playing?
If the game is so boring that you want to get it over with and move to the next checklist, then just… play a different game that you actually enjoy playing?
Counter point, some people like to potato as they kill their 100,000 one shot kill. That said I prefer the approach fan made achievements take that ban stupid grindy shit and require they get moved to a subset.
And some of those subsets are truly insane, but someone in this world (a few, even) got Level 99 Sora in Kingdom Hearts before leaving the starting island and they have a fucking record to show for it, lol.
Take my poor man’s gold. 🏅
Rich man's Lemmy gold
The whole reddit gold system was a slippery slope that they barelled down
IMO the moment that site jumped the shark was when the userbase agreed on 'reddit silver' as a way to acknowledge high quality content without being forced to pay for cyberstickers.
so of course reddit corp wasted no time monetizing it.
everything that's come since has been entirely foreseeable just based on that experience.
I think the paid aspect of them sucked but I did enjoy the twitch-emote style reaction vibe some of them had. Having something like that be a non-paid feature would be fun to see I think.
What rewards are you talking about?
The Reddit ones
I've never heard of those.