Users who had their coin balances removed will be given silver turds.
Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’
Submitted 5 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/17/24158848/reddit-brings-back-award-system-gold-coins-messed-up
Comments
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 5 months ago
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I hate the fact that I’m only about 90% sure you’re joking.
evident5051@lemm.ee [bot] 5 months ago
Poe’s law hits hard sometimes.
samus12345@lemmy.world 5 months ago
BotW gave a gold turd as their “fuck you” reward, but reddit is too cheap even for that.
9point6@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So, while awards are coming back, the phrase “thanks for the gold, kind stranger” is still effectively a retired piece of Reddit history.
Reddit is a retired piece of Reddit history
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
beloved features — like the ability to “gild” posts by donating a Reddit Premium subscription — are not returning.
That was like more than half the point of gold. Some random comment getting lots of gold would mean the recipient, in turn, could give out gold too.
Now…
Gsus4@mander.xyz 5 months ago
“great, I got upvoted by reddit “blue” subscribers…this is so special :/” energy
MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Lemmy Bronze: Hitting the little star on the post.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Lemmy Wooden Nickel: Upvotes
Etterra@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Value!
riodoro1@lemmy.world 5 months ago
People spend real money in reddit. What a bunch of loosers.
Entropywins@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s what I thought when I first saw gold back in 2010…
reddig33@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You messed up worse than just getting rid of awards.
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s okay, Reddit. I don’t post anymore.
demizerone@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Deleted my 15 year old account. I hope something else can take over that is not for profit someday. A reddit like link sharer is important for the health of the Internet. But I’m not going to let that weasel spex make $3 a year off my time.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’d delete my account, but then people wouldn’t see my advertisement for Lemmy in my profile. Plus my repeated 'FUCK REDDIT’s.
Argyle13@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ok, we are not coming back anyway
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I almost thought that closing awards, taking the money, then opening awards was a scam to defraud people of their money.
Then I realized awards was a scam all along.
athos77@kbin.social 5 months ago
Oh, they're being cute with this. You need to pay money to get what reddit is calling "gold" (formerly known as coins), which you can use to give awards with. But one of the old awards you still can't give is the old-style reddit "gold" (premium). So they want ever more money without even giving the minor account boost you used to get, just for some skin for a comment. Fuck those guys.
Etterra@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Why have a thriving community when you can kill the nice and/or helpful ones with a lead pipe and then try to squeeze money out of the remaining morons?
Gsus4@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Meh, it’s just another publicly traded company now, it’s just trying every PR trick going after stonks signals.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I’m happy yo be here
BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Have you seen the abomination that is the layout for reddit now? www.reddit.com
Thankfully you can still access the old “new” layout at new.reddit.com , and of course old.reddit.com still exists too.
I only go there for a few communities that don’t exist here, but that is where we are at, at this point.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Wow they are actually copying what DIGG did, and expecting a different outcome.
grahamja@reddthat.com 5 months ago
I went to Digg yesterday, it looks like the MSN start page full of terrible probably automatically generated articles. Shame reddit didn’t have the same amount of people jump ship like when everyone left Digg 4.0.
BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ll have to believe you, I don’t know what DIGG is! I’ll presume its just another media online outlet.
Aermis@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Dude I can’t even run the website anymore. It lags, won’t click links, can’t even get into my settings. I thought I had malware but it was exclusive to every time I opened a reddit link.
BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I get lags too. Interestingly (and not relevant to the topic) I can access reddit okay (but it has huge pause on initial load) on Windows with Chrome (or Opera), but reddit fails to load correctly when I am using Linux with Chromium. Tried other browsers too, reddit seems to not like Linux at all (well my install of Linux anyway). I can’t even log in successfully.
bitfucker@programming.dev 5 months ago
Hoho man, that naming scheme made me shiver. Bonus points since old and new exist at the same time
BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It did that initially for me as well, I had to clear the cache and cookies for reddit. Goto new.reddit and login again.
sfantu@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Reddit sucks balls
NetherFalcon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
So true.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Quiet falls around the boardroom table. One analyst breaks the silence. “Well, you see, you have investors now. And, well, they’ve kind of noticed that quality of your content is contrastically downhill over the past couple of years”. An unnamed C staffer blurts out “I told you getting rid of reddit gold was a bad idea, let’s just break it back and everyone will come back and contribute again!”
Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
“Genius! Who would’a thought? 10,000 extra shares in your bonus this year!”
uhmbah@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
“rrred-dit”… that sounds familiar… 🤔
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I don’t think the award system is the only place where they messed up…
InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Meh
just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 months ago
🥱
Lag@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They knew it promoted karma farming. It helps them make money so I doubt this is an “oops”.
Gsus4@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Why did they remove it in first place, was it to promote their cryptoscam?
FlyingVirgin@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
What is karma farming?
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
lol
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 5 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
And then there’s coins — the tokens Reddit users previously needed to purchase with real money to buy awards.
As such, the platform is compensating users who had their coin balance removed with a “number of exclusive awards” that they can give out for free.
Instead, users will now need to purchase gold, which starts at $1.79 (or $1.99 via mobile) for 100 gold, and was introduced as part of Reddit’s Contributor Program to award other users with “golden upvotes.” Reddit said the golden upvote “wasn’t as fun or expressive as legacy awards,” and will sunset the system now that the old awards program is back, though eligible creators can still use gold to earn money via its Contributor Program.
Unlike golden upvotes, Reddit says its Contributor Program has attracted plenty of interest and is now being expanded to cover 35 countries.
The company acknowledged user concerns about the potential for the program to be abused for spam, fraud, and karma farming, but says it hasn’t seen an increase in such behavior since the system was introduced six months ago.
So, while awards are coming back, the phrase “thanks for the gold, kind stranger” is still effectively a retired piece of Reddit history.
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afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I am not interested in talking about my ex.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Cool, now do the API and I’ll consider not actively avoiding your website.
db2@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I won’t. They’d have to fire Steve with no golden parachute, then maybe.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Just let things die is my opinion. It’s much nicer here.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I don’t really care how much Steve gets out of it, I just want a not-terrible platform. So I’m cool with a golden parachute if that’s what it takes to get rid of him and get someone better for the platform.
That’s not happening though, so I’ll just avoid the platform.
MxM111@kbin.social 5 months ago
I don’t mind him having golden parachute- it is heavier and most likely won’t open.
chevy9294@monero.town 5 months ago
And they also have to let people use a VPN. And make UI load faster, it’s way too bloated.
Encode1307@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I tried going back for a while, but when I couldn’t connect on VPN, I left again.
Wooki@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So they can train openai on your comments? No thanks. Its done for good IMO.
barsquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The AI companies will do that shit on Lemmy also. At least there isn’t a far-right Nazi getting money on our user generated content tho, unlike reddit.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
They’re going to do that regardless.
I want an open API so I can use third party apps. I’m totally fine with them requiring an API token or something with a sensible rate limit to limit abuse by parties like openai (they’ll have to go through a sales contract).
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 5 months ago
Nah, too late. Now that I’ve finally migrated to the fediverse, I’m staying here.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Not even the API. Just a usable page that doesn’t feel so broken and bloated.
viking@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Did they switch off old.reddit.com in the end? That was the only useful front-end on desktop.
barsquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m done for good, myself. Moved to Lemmy and there are far fewer dimwitted Nazis here.
invisiblegorilla@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Fail shitlers