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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 231 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 year ago

The new more edgy five-o-clock shadow Reddit.

[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 203 points 1 year ago (3 children)

...so they got rid of awards in favor of adding arrow shaped awards?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

“Supports the creators” makes me think they have a revenue split and they got rid of the old system to prevent people from not knowing the difference

[–] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah this also conveniently happens after they made everyone's Reddit Gold invalid. Pretty damn shady if you ask me.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Need influencers if they are going to IPO

Don’t want to lose money by having to split something people bought a year ago

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 29 points 1 year ago

The "levels" doesn't even make any sense, a splink of different color?

What a lol.

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[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 196 points 1 year ago (2 children)

🖕🖕🏻🖕🏼🖕🏽🖕🏾🖕🏿

[–] theotherone@kbin.social 107 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I appreciate your commitment to inclusion.

[–] lilsolar@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 year ago

Hatred of reddit is accepted by all

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

"Fingering supports the contributors you love."

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 77 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] AutopilotP@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Giving gold supports the creators you love

I'm not going back to Reddit to find the answer but does any of this money actually go to the creators of the post that gets gold?

[–] ech@lemm.ee 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

If they get at least 10 gold awarded to them within 12 months, and meet the karma/yr threshold, and stay in "good standing" , and aren't nsfw, and any number of the other thresholds Reddit could use to say no, then they might get ~50% of the price paid to award it. Otherwise Reddit just keeps it all.

[–] pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de 33 points 1 year ago

Investors be like

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[–] cmhickman358@thelemmy.club 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They don't get money, they get exposure which is more valuable than money anyway /s in case it wasn't obvious

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exposure is something people can die from.

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[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Remember to always tip your celebrities for promoting whatever dumb projects on on your Internet forums, god knows we could use the money.

spoiler

THAT WAS SARCASM

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but can we get back to talking about I Don't Even Remember The Name Oh Wait Rampart

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

You mean Barbie, right?

Because my movies are the only commercial interests permitted on Lemmy. Look at the banner of this community!

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[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not one for circle jerking but reddit is objectively becoming a shittier platform

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like all of them kinda are

Youtube and Discord conveniently added user tags for no reason literally the moment Twitter went down the already pretty deep hole.

Twitch's favorite pastime is making bank on "unrelated" content

Facebook is just Facebook

Reddit has been constantly losing its appeal every year ever since they moved off the old layout.

Everyone adding/changing things in some meager attempt to drive profits and value without considering effects of user loss because social media is such an oligopoly it doesn't matter.

[–] Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hiroshima has completely given up on ever making 4chan profitable, so it's still full of porn and casual racism.

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[–] Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Love the desperate grab for revenue prior to IPO.

Too bad the ransomware is getting leaked as soon as they announce the IPO date.

Spez, you done played yourself.

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They're paying the user this money or this is just for a fancy little icon next to the post like reddit gold used to be?

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's literally just reddit currency for their shitty premium

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~Oh, just more bullshit then. Thanks for clarifying.~~

Edit: they do pay out cash for gold, but they keep most of it.

[–] 0xD@infosec.pub 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Not sure why the others are lying - disliking a platform is not a reason for spreading misinformation.

https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/17331620007572-What-is-the-Contributor-Program-and-how-can-I-participate-

They are paying eligible users based on karma and gold.

Of course, the program is more of a "see, we have something" than a proper revenue share because of the "get at least 10 gold" criterium and all the other hoops you have to jump through.

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Thank you for the correct answer! I would have gone on believing a lie had you not responded. Here's their payout table:

Contributor Tier Karma (Over 12 mo period) Payout Rate (Dollars per Gold) Minimum Gold for payout
Non-contributor 0-99 Karma No payout; balance rolls over n/a
Contributor 100-4999 Karma $0.90 per 1 Gold 10
Top contributor 5000+ Karma $1.00 per 1 Gold 10

So they charge $2.69-$66.99 for gilding and only give the contributor $0.90-$1, keeping the rest. Wow, sounds like a shit deal for everyone but Reddit.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So basically this will give a very small handful of gallowboob-scale karma whores maybe a thousand dollars a year.

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[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

In all my years in reddit I only got gold once. The prerequisites of needing 10 is just bonkers.

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

After 10 years, approaching a million comment karma, and many sourced write-ups and copy pastas I got a fair amount. Probably 200 of a mixture of gold and the occasional platinum. This was concentrated in later years as I better understood reddit, and understood specific audiences more. I strove to give genuinely good information, too.

Unfortunately reddit's admins are lazy, suck, and some subs' moderators even worse (looking at r/news) and they screwed me. Their loss. I'll find another platform to publish content, like here of course and elsewhere.

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[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I usually get "gold" by complaining about how admins / employees can give it out for free to drum up interest.

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[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I used to have gold to gild, I would always give it to the stupidest comment, like the most childish shit ever, if you had a poop joke or something, I'd give you gold, most of the time people would join in and gild the dumb comment.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Man if I'd have found this out back then I'd have ranted at you for ruining reddit.

[–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 year ago

Fuck all that Reddit shit

[–] donio@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Imagine the person (or more likely a whole group) who has spent weeks designing and iterating over those arrows.

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[–] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait are they charging people for upvoteing

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

It's what the old gold used to be. They rebranded it and added a tiny incentive for content creators (like a dollar per gold, regardless of the level of gold, once you reach a certain karma level)

Really it's just shittier reddit gold and another way reddit is trying to make money off of colorful arrows

[–] Shareiff@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Turning Reddit into a career

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

A repost bot’s dream

[–] Nusm@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is off topic, but why isn't there an animated gif of Bugs Bunny saying the "NO"? I mean, we have animated gifs for almost everything else, but I only see this as a static pic. Can no one find the cartoon that this is from and create a gif from it?

[–] JCreazy@midwest.social 36 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It is because the cartoon in which the frame is from he doesn't actually say no. The frame is taken just after he chugs a whole bottle of "Hare Tonic" https://youtu.be/uuKiqu3g_sE

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[–] ContentConsumer9999@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's definitely intentional that half of the #prices have #69 in it right?

[–] Nusm@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Musk must have come up with the idea. Wait, there's no $4.20 option, so maybe not.

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

What a bunch of scumbags

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