Reddit is ending Reddit Gold and users are furious::undefined

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    1 year ago

    on one hand, reddit gold is useless and a waste of money imo

    other hand, they just keep going for making the most controversial decisions with zero thought lmao

    • anonono@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      reddit gold used to be how the community helped with server costs back when reddit had only a few employees

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        I still have my reddit account, only to malicously mod one community and update a secret community about a move to lemmy, but I only use reddit now to do a quick check in on those subs and then a glace at the front page.

        Anyway, i saw the reddit post and a bunch of people were livid and said they were doing chargebacks now. I informed them that chargebacks cost reddit more money than they initally spent (spend $5 they have to return the $5 and pay a $20 fee), and if tok many users do a chargeback then credit card companies would stop paying them wink.

        EDIT: in response to telling people that it would hurt reddit finacially I got a 2 gold and 2 platnium awards which i hope were paid for with chargebacked credits.

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          EDIT: in response to telling people that it would hurt reddit finacially I got a 2 gold and 2 platnium awards which i hope were paid for with chargebacked credits.

          They were probably just throwing leftover Coins they had in your direction.

    • irotsoma@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Sure but they could have left the awards in place for a while even if no more could be added. And instead of making everyone lose all the coins they already spent money on, they could have allowed those coins to be used for whatever the next thing is. Just throwing out everyone’s money is never a good practice.

      Like what if Minecraft decided they were going with a new monetization strategy and said everyone’s minecoins would expire in a couple of months and any skins, texture packs, etc., you bought with them will also be gone. And no refunds of course.

      • arcturus@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I did not know minecoins were a thing

        but in any case, I’m not saying that they’re making a good decision, just that I don’t see the point of reddit gold

      • Plaid_Kaleidoscooe@lemmy.world
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        I don’t even know what the coins are, but if they did it this way, wouldn’t that cause a lot of people to want to sell accounts that still had coins and such? Maybe they wouldn’t to avoid a secondary marketplace. Either way, they really are tightening ship for the corpos.

    • Skellymax@lemmy.world
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      It might be that they’ve given up on the visuals and are now making all the changes all at once. They’re ripping off the bandaid overhauling their site and are banking that the damage will be recover in time.

      With the current state of dissatisfaction from the community, now might be a good time to plow through and make all the changes that are already undesirable for the old user base.

      Maybe even more of these big changes to come? More popcorn for the Fediverse I suppose.