https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/1css0ws/we_heard_you_awards_are_back/
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Just in time for election season.
But yeah from a business perspective it didn't make sense that they went away. They've got to think about earnings now.
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Why did they even take it away?
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I think they found the award system overbloated after they started giving everyone daily awards. They tried to pivot to some golden upvote feature that just didn't even show up on old.reddit.com at all and it wasn't even really clear how to use it on the app.
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This new system isn't on old.reddit.com either.
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From a codecel perspective the old system was a disaster. Whoever designed it should have been shot.
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It was giving reddit premium to the recipients. The problem is that the people getting it are power users that would actually pay for reddit premium so it was directly competing with their other revenue source.
I wouldn't be surprised (I'm not reading the article) of they removed free reddit premium from gold and the delay was just so they could frame it as "gold coming back" instead of "gold getting nerfed"
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You're right about reddit gold being a dumb idea.
I think it's funny they never tried anything else tho lmao. It's interesting how little gamification these social media companies build into their apps. Seems like an easy way to farm money from their users.
Reddit too busy making rplace or smth
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They replaced it with some system where "high quality posters" would be rewarded with cold hard cash
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https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/14ytp7s/reworking_awarding_changes_to_awards_coins_and/?context=8
If you can make sense of not taking free money for literally nothing in return, then here's their reasoning.
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This is making Endless Shrimp an all year long thing-tier business decision
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Looks like awards on IDF airstrike footage is back on the menu
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Now bring back giving awards with anonymous messages
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NO REFUNDS on those expired coins
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I was wondering about that, I remember the whining when they took it away.
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Reddit remains the most incompetent social media company. Incredible dedication to r-sluration
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Thanks for the gold kind stranger!
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Kind stranger, thanks for the...well, you know...
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reddit is trolled us again
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And yet none of the awards do anything
Gay cat forum wins again
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I can't believe a gay cat website and a gore website made in a year have better features than a forum with a $10B market cap
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FINALLY I CAN GET BACK TO THANKING KIND STRANGERS!!!
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On one hand, paid upvotes were always bullshit.
On the other,
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Quick, time to put "wholesome" awards on all news stories about the deaths of criminals and protesters
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