Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’

Cool, now do the API and I'll consider not actively avoiding your website.

Users who had their coin balances removed will be given silver turds.

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

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...

I've got all the awards we need right here.

You messed up worse than just getting rid of awards.

People spend real money on reddit. What a bunch of loosers.

It's okay, Reddit. I don't post anymore.

Still doesn’t fix the ill will from when they abruptly killed Apollo, in a stupid way that screwed both users and an indie dev who actually cared and had dedicated significant effort to the platform.

Also, I absolutely cannot wait for when Reddit itself becomes meme stocked. Somehow, both GameStop and AMC are still alive, but the crazies are back, and Reddit seems like an excellent candidate.

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.

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.

Ok, we are not coming back anyway

Meh, it's just another publicly traded company now, it's just trying every PR trick going after stonks signals.

I'm happy to be here

Have you seen the abomination that is the layout for reddit now? https://www.reddit.com

Thankfully you can still access the old "new" layout at https://new.reddit.com , and of course https://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.

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!"

Reddit sucks balls

I don't think the award system is the only place where they messed up...

"rrred-dit"... that sounds familiar... 🤔

Meh

They knew it promoted karma farming. It helps them make money so I doubt this is an "oops".

🥱

lol

I am not interested in talking about my ex.

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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