Make content, get paid.

  • Mereo@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The concept behind the program is straightforward. Redditors who receive substantial gold and karma from other community members can potentially convert these virtual rewards into real-world money that can be cashed out.

    sigh, that’s desperation. This means that the discussion on Reddit will not be natural or organic, it will cease to be human. Redditors will be like dogs, where they shitpost and post comments that everyone agrees with so they can make money, basically doing what the master tells them in order to get their treat. Reddit as we know it will cease to exist.

    • SCB@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Worse, I don’t think it’s desperation. I think the senior leadership genuinely sees this as a good idea. That implies they view reddit no longer as a series of communities that organically develop and more as a social network that should pursue reach and “quality” content.

      To me, that’s way worse than desperation. That’s like the exact opposite of what reddit was stated to be when I first joined.

      • TomTheGeek@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        That’s like the exact opposite of what reddit was stated to be when I first joined.

        It is exactly the opposite of what Aaron Swartz created.

    • Crunchypotat77@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Basically Quora.

      Quora started to pay people to ask questions, rather than reward the people who put efforts into answering.

      I skipped that stupid thing instantly.