Reddit details how their Contributor Program will promote engagement

https://www.engadget.com/reddit-turns-top-contributors-reddit-gold-into-real-world-money-203036387.html

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16 Comments

simple@lemm.ee · 84 pts · 2y (5 replies)

I'm sure this will end very well and people will make quality content and totally not botfarm and karmawhore everywhere.

0110010001100010@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 2y (1 reply)

They already botfarm and karmawhore everywhere. This is just going to amplify that problem.

Kalkaline@leminal.space · 13 pts · 2y

I imagine corporations will see gold as a way of promoting their advertising in a cheap way. What a terrible concept for a platform that was struggling anyway.

partial_accumen@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y (1 reply)

See quality original content.

Copy original content to a post of your own.

Report original post as SPAM, CSAM, or otherwise abuse.

Profit

Since now that there is a straight up monetary profit motive, would stealing someone else's original content actually make the thief open to a civil suit? Does that mean you could subpoena Reddit for the thief's contact info?

SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

There’s already a copyright claim regardless of profit. Whether it’s worth the hassle and cost is another matter.

eee@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y

people will make quality content and totally not botfarm and karmawhore everywhere

You're assuming that botfarming and karma whoring isn't considered "quality".

I mean, look at this shining beacon of quality: "Reddit, what's the sexiest sex you've ever sexed? [Serious]"

Zerlyna@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 2y

$2.00 for one and $1.96 each for 25. Nope. Fuck Spez.

infinitevalence@discuss.online · 11 pts · 2y (3 replies)

What happened to all the people who used to contribute quality content before?

eee@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)

they left (and hopefully some ended up here).

I used to post almost daily (although i wouldn't classify much of it as "quality") for the last few years, and less frequently for about a decade before that. I've posted exactly 0 times since the app-pocalypse.

infinitevalence@discuss.online · 1 pts · 2y

same, I left over that and I would like to think my posts were quality, but I did not honestly expect everyone to go.

Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 1 pts · 2y

Gone. Reduced to downvotes.

athos77@kbin.social · 9 pts · 2y

So many limits and restrictions, including getting ten gold a year, to cash out. I don't see reddit having to give out much money here.

Fixbeat@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 2y
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FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y

It’s shark jumping time…

hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y

Is he trying to "buy back" engagement he lost? Is it about user retention?

I really don't get the move...

iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Can't affect me since i don't use Reddit no mo

TheWoozy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

LOL