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Reddit's Contributor Program could earn you real money for your Reddit karma
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this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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I wouldn't be surprised if this was done through cryptocurrency like Reddit's done before.
A few years ago Reddit started to give community specific cryptocurrencies depending on how much karma the user got. I think it was only launched on the Fortnite and Cryptocurrency subreddits, and I'd say giving cryptocurrency to a community of mostly young Fortnite fans seems immoral, but not surprising for Reddit.
I've made like 150$ off of r/cryptocurrency moons from the few comments I've left there but it wasn't a great move by reddit. The quality of the entire subreddit took a nosedive and there were different meta strategies to earn moons like sob-stories à la "I'm living in a third world country and make money farming moons".
If they expanded this experiment to the entire platform, the entire site will become truly unusable.I hope they do it lol.