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      Yes, but now it’s less accessible, costs more, and is less transparent so companies can astroturf easier.

      But it’s better because they’re totally 100% looking at ways to share the revenue with the communities as soon as possible. Definitely one of the top priorities without a doubt.

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          Pfft, crypto would be better than nothing, which is exactly what he means, they’re not getting a thing 😂

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          Reddit crypto is great! I was foolish enough to purchase Reddit Gold like 10 years ago, now I sold the crypto Reddit Moons for almost the same! (not adjusted for inflation, and it only turned the crypto subreddit into a cesspool, but whatever)

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        And they also removed all existing gold from accounts in order to replace the system with one near identical.

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        I just hate this corporate talk. I know they are lying, they know they are lying, so why not be honest for a change? That would be the very first step for me to even consider using reddit again.

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      Oh look the guy with the $50 upvote is responding to the guy who doesn’t have any karma. Come on!

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    1. How is this different from how gold currently works?
    2. What is that about a $50 upvote?
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      They have probably been replaced by an AI that was exclusively trained on clowns.

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    And people will pay it. If there’s anything I’ve learned over the past year, no matter how bad things get, some dumbass will pay. 99% of the population could be under water or on fire and that leftover 1% would still have guys trying to buy in game cosmetics and tipping Twitch streamers.

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      Unlike reddit gold, tipping streamers actually makes sense, though. It’s like throwing a couple bucks in the guitar case of a brusker…the person is entertaining you so you give them a few bucks as thanks. I don’t do watch streams but I get it.

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        This is how I view it too. I rarely spend money on twitch, but a sub or dono to someone who I’ve literally watched for hundreds of hours for essentially free doesn’t really seem like a problem to me.

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    After taking everything away from what we “earned” for the past years. They’re taking more than half of the money of what people pay before giving the rest to the actual receiver and Reddit being Reddit is probably just stop payments at some point and just pocket money. Of course, after a lot of spam and repost bots made some bucks and the climate on Reddit gets worse as bots get more aggressive to beat the other bots.

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    Why does the image look like a synapse? Is that meant to illustrate Redditors’ chemical dependence on Reddit Gold?

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      It is undoubtedly a group of synapses with one about to get a big juicy golden dopamine hit. I feel like that was a spez request to marketing and design departments as a subtle way to laugh at how obviously overboard they can go and people will stay addicted.

      I’m curious how the r/conspiracy sub is reacting, or not reacting.

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    That’s a fucking nonsense idea, but how else would they afford the crack that caused that idea to originate?

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    Wow they’re just digging upper and upper ain’t they.

    Cheers, reddit. Good luck and that.

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    Wow. They did not confirm the super votes affect the algorithm but if they do that’s pretty shocking.