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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm sure this will end very well and people will make quality content and totally not botfarm and karmawhore everywhere.

[–] 0110010001100010 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They already botfarm and karmawhore everywhere. This is just going to amplify that problem.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I imagine corporations will see gold as a way of promoting their advertising in a cheap way. What a terrible concept for a platform that was struggling anyway.

[–] partial_accumen 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

See quality original content.

Copy original content to a post of your own.

Report original post as SPAM, CSAM, or otherwise abuse.

Profit

Since now that there is a straight up monetary profit motive, would stealing someone else's original content actually make the thief open to a civil suit? Does that mean you could subpoena Reddit for the thief's contact info?

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi 4 points 1 year ago

There’s already a copyright claim regardless of profit. Whether it’s worth the hassle and cost is another matter.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

people will make quality content and totally not botfarm and karmawhore everywhere

You're assuming that botfarming and karma whoring isn't considered "quality".

I mean, look at this shining beacon of quality: "Reddit, what's the sexiest sex you've ever sexed? [Serious]"

[–] Zerlyna 30 points 1 year ago

$2.00 for one and $1.96 each for 25. Nope. Fuck Spez.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What happened to all the people who used to contribute quality content before?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they left (and hopefully some ended up here).

I used to post almost daily (although i wouldn't classify much of it as "quality") for the last few years, and less frequently for about a decade before that. I've posted exactly 0 times since the app-pocalypse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

same, I left over that and I would like to think my posts were quality, but I did not honestly expect everyone to go.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gone. Reduced to downvotes.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

So many limits and restrictions, including getting ten gold a year, to cash out. I don't see reddit having to give out much money here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

What a shit show this will be.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Is he trying to "buy back" engagement he lost? Is it about user retention?

I really don't get the move...

[–] iforgotmyinstance 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can't affect me since i don't use Reddit no mo

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It’s shark jumping time…

[–] TheWoozy 3 points 1 year ago