• CrazyEddie041@kbin.social
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    Oh good. Now they’re literally paying the karma-farming bots to spam recycled and stolen content. That will surely end well.

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    1. Make two accounts
    2. Pay gold to your second account
    3. Super upvote for 10¢

    This will definitely not get used to boost shit spammy content. Nope. Not a chance.

    It’s 90% cheaper than organic content.

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      One gold upvote costs $2, the recipient might get either $0.90 or perhaps $1. But most likely they’ll get nothing.

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    It blows my mind that this is both spez and Elmo’s best idea for what to do with their respective hellsites: what if we made a shittier Quora? Because Quora’s such an enviable business, right guys? Quora’s right up there with Apple and Microsoft!

    The Metaverse pivot by Zuck was only marginally less stupid. This is why HBO had to cancel Silicon Valley, the show: you can’t parody Sillycon Valley anymore. ByteDance and WeChat are going to devour these clowns alive, now that the money printer stopped going brrr. They never had any plan to ever be profitable. Their business model was just to continue scamming investors with fake users and keep raising more billions, like the Pied Piper bot users. These are zombie companies, propped up by negative real interest rates for a decade. Let them die already.

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      lol WeChat who has a defacto government granted monopoly in exchange for all customer data being given to the government is going to drive the innovation?

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    Caveats: gold is not eligible in NSFW, trauma support, or quarantined subreddits.

    what

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      Probably because they dont want to incentive people to go there and make up stories about in order to get sympathy gold.

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      I’m guessing they don’t want non-qualified individuals benefiting monetarily from mental health services. I can only assume it’s a legal can of worms.

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        It’s quite easy to make a list of existing large trauma support subs, just search “trauma” and they’ll probably include the top 3 pages

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    So a user issue 2.50 to buy a gold, then the receiver can cash out 1.00. So Reddit aims to make 1.50 for every gold awarded

    Absolute scam

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      Well to be fair, before this they got all of the money for a tiny picture. So in that light they scam a bit less now.

      But of course this still is a stupid idea which will decrease whatever remaining quality Reddit has even more.

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    They’re just copying Elon. To that end, the already clickbait-filled front page is gonna get worse and engagement farming is going to become as rife as ever.

    It’s a desperate and cynical attempt to claw back users who appear to have left en masse after the API changes. Reddit is noticeably less active in smaller subs since July. And the larger subs have more or less consolidated themselves to a few power users.

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    I wonder if they’re all retarded. Like, what do they think is going to happen, there will suddenly be a bunch of totally not Chinese gold farmers posting content?

    They may be the stupidest motherfuckers in existentiality.

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      Just look at Quora, you have your target nationality wrong. It’ll be flooded by Indian gold farmers. The vast majority of Chinese people don’t speak English. China has a parallel, disjoint internet to ours. India has the second-largest English speaking population in the world, due to British imperialism, and no Great Firewall.

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    Reddit admins note: "you’ll receive a new shiny badge on your profile indicating you’re in the program and can earn cash! "

    Hoping that reddit mods have the balls to auto-delete all posts from users who are approved for the monetization system. Knowing that they won’t, I’m waiting for the Firefox extension and Revanced patch that auto-censor posts by those users.

    Of course reddit will quickly remove that visibility.

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.world
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      Communities do have good contributors that make good content. Speaking to Pokemon GO, announcements are often wordy and lack key information (which pokemon can be shiny, for example). It’s up to the community to post helpful infographics when events start to give a concise and accurate overview. In many instances, blocking top contributors will also block the best content.

      Totally different story when talking about big, general topic subs like memes, news, etc. But why would you even browse those in the first place?

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    I’ll be honest. I do miss Reddit. I often think about going back to it. Reading this though, it reinvigorates my belief, I made the right choice and I’m never going back.