Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards : technology

[–] angelsomething@lemmy.one 143 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

laughs in Lemmy/Kbin

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 77 points 2 years ago (8 children)

A Lemmy lemon for your good sir! 🍋

[–] 37219@lemm.ee 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Give and you shall receive, one prestigious award for you sir: Lemmy lemonade.🍹

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[–] StealthToad@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

I like Lemmy Lemons 🍋

Lemons always bring to mind Cave Johnson’s rant about making life take the lemons back and burning houses down with combustible lemons😌

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[–] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 100 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Lemmy should make its own awards.

Award #1 -- Blackjack

Aware #2 -- Hookers

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

In fact forget the awards

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 years ago

I like to give out Lemmy Lemons 🍋

I enjoy that they're meaningless and if people find them obnoxious they can just downvote them.

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[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 98 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I was hoping we could keep the reddit posts in !reddit@lemmy.ml

[–] thayer@lemmy.ca 122 points 2 years ago

While I agree that user-generated reddit topics are best left to a dedicated community, I also think that published articles discussing the platform are appropriate for any Technology community; no different than Twitter, Threads, or other social media platform news coverage.

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[+] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 93 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 65 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

They have something worse up their sleeves

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[–] ConfirmingMoose@reddthat.com 19 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I think that reddit's "going public" guru squad doesn't want redditors to be able to have any control on what content is pushed to the top of the queue. That is just a guess, though.

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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"We will continue pursuing profit until we are profitable"

-some dumbass

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[–] Smokeless7048@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Giving someone a reward gives them some Reddit premium, including coins they can spend. Wouldn't be surprised if they relaunch it, in a way where everyone loses

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago

I got a message saying I apparently have premium and/or coins, and to use them before they expire.

But, even before the Reddit plague I had no way of even knowing that, because I used old Reddit and RiF.

Anyway, my point is that this change only affects official Reddit app users, and new Reddit users.

So Reddit found a way to take stuff away from the users who weren't directly affected by the third-party app shutdowns.

It's a genius way to make sure everyone is pissed off all at once.

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[+] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 82 points 2 years ago (9 children)

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[–] whatsarefoogee@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As someone who would never pay for reddit coins or premium, it's still pretty easy to identify with them.

They paid for a product and now it's being removed with no compensation or refund. That's total bullshit regardless of what the product was.

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[–] 1bluepixel@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I hated the "coin culture" with a passion (hey, look, it's Bill Gates, let's give him tons of paid emoticons he won't care about!), but it's clear this move is part of Reddit's further enshittification. You can bet whatever replaces coins will be even shittier, and I think Reddit's users know it.

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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I can't identify with giving reddit money but I can sympathize with people who were saving monthly coins they paid for. Seriously, it has to be deliberate now. Why piss off your most loyal, paying customers? Is it a test?

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[–] Ducks@ducks.dev 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yea I think the outrage is or should be directed at removing the already given awards. Just to go and wipe everything is not a great idea

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[–] WiseassWolfOfYoitsu@lemmy.world 55 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I just dumped all my old coins onto comments encouraging people to do chargebacks for any year-long Premium subscriptions since they're in material breach.

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[+] InternetTubes@lemmy.world 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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[–] DigitalWanderer@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

that used to be what i though would be my queue to exit...until i realised that my reddit experience was basically RIF.. so yea if they want to get rid of another great chunk of users, do get rid of old reddit, do it spez!

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[–] spacedancer@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's gonna be the final nail in the coffin for me. As of now I only go there for my city's subreddit as the fediverse equivalent isn't quite active yet.

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[–] Chriszz@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Amazing. Really does sound like they’re trying to sabotage the site now.

I was thinking about it; Lemmy could technically implement a system of gold on its own e.g can give one award a month after hitting a certain karma level or something to siphon more Reddit users.

But a lot of people on this site seem to not want normie Reddit users flocking here and my personal expectation is that people here would not care for awards. So whether they flock here or not will likely depend on how fed up they get.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Feels like Elon bought Reddit and we just haven't heard about it yet

[–] Chriszz@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think little piggy spez is an Elon fanboy so it makes sense

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[–] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

I have no problem with Redditors flocking over here, but I just don't think online discussions should be "awarded". It just distracts from actual discussion and turns everything into a popularity contest. Leave the karma and point hoarding on Reddit IMHO.

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I admit I like upvotes. They provide feedback on whether a comment was helpful. And awards highlighted the most helpful comments.

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[–] BabaYaga@reddthat.com 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is spez trying to beat Musk’s record for number of strategic blunders made while running a tech company?

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago

Spez idolizes Musk. So he's doing the exact same thing.

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[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

They were a zero-effort money printer. Why on Earth would they ditch them?

This makes no sense at all even from their perspective.

[–] trachemys@iusearchlinux.fyi 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

They said they are replacing it with something else. I believe more money will be directly involved.

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[–] Uno@monyet.cc 26 points 2 years ago

Reddit has gone to the crapper. It's not just banning 3rd party apps, it's not just ditching awards, all of these wildly unpopular decisions have left a permanent scar on the user base and it shows. Now, all of the top posts on r/popular are garbage nonsense like "unpopular opinion: the far left and far right are both just as bad as each other" or "im a horse girl rate me". Sad times.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It was such a nice way to monetize, just a teensy little icon on posts you could easily ignore. Tells you whatever replaces it is gonna be far less acceptable.

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[–] skillissuer@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (10 children)

how much is anyone's betting that it will involve crypto in some way? i raise you a very fine 6mm dia 1m long aluminum tube

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[–] HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I checked some discussion over there and most of the comments seemed to be people who don’t care cuz they don’t use em. Those who remained after api are just along for the ride I guess

Only a few new about their chats being deleted

[–] FringeTheory999@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

it’s zombie reddit over there. most of the people that stayed were just lurkers. They still think this was all caused by “power tripping mods” and don’t notice the site decaying around them. They’re just glad the mods that chastised them for being racist are gone.

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[–] db2@lemmy.one 17 points 2 years ago

The ones that aren't bots, shills or spammers are apathetic. They won't be contributing any content to speak of. They'll also eventually get bored and leave because of that same reason.

[–] 99nights@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Honestly I can't wait for the downfall of reddit. They seem to be constantly pushing away and annoying their users.

[–] mand0rk@unilem.org 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Keep it up Reddit! Push more people away! Lemmy devs watching all the Reddit refugees (I'm one): o.O

[–] BuckRowdy@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When the API changes were announced, for the first time I started thinking I should leave reddit. This coin thing was just kicking me while I was down. Ok, they want to get rid of awards for a new system. But you also want to remove them from past posts?? And you're not going to convert coin balances into anything?

Those are the things a company that has no regard for it's users does.

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[–] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (5 children)

They want to force redditors to see ads. That's the whole point. Gilding someone was a way of gifting an ad-free experience to a random redditor, and Reddit doesn't like that anymore.

Of course it's also because spez doesn't like seeing too many awards on "fuck spez" comments.

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[–] Orionza@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For me, I don't much care. I stopped visiting Reddit when my app was shut down. I find my information and make my contributions elsewhere now.

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[–] Ddhuud@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Wasn't that one of the exclusive "features" of the official app. I guess there's no point for exclusive features now.

[–] _donnadie_@feddit.cl 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

That's a stupid one though. Why would you get enraged at something that was only made to make profit for the reddit guys? There's no real value on reddit coins or awards, it's just a jpg or gif for somebody's comment or post.

If anything, it's funny that they removed an easy cash grab they had.

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[–] JuliusSeizure@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I haven't visited reddit since boost stopped working a few days after the API change. Filled the void mostly with twitter. Don't miss it at all.

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