The new more edgy five-o-clock shadow Reddit.
🖕🖕🏻🖕🏼🖕🏽🖕🏾🖕🏿
I appreciate your commitment to inclusion.
Hatred of reddit is accepted by all
Love the desperate grab for revenue prior to IPO.
Too bad the ransomware is getting leaked as soon as they announce the IPO date.
Spez, you done played yourself.
Go on…
“prior to ipo” for the last four(teen) years
When I used to have gold to gild, I would always give it to the stupidest comment, like the most childish shit ever, if you had a poop joke or something, I’d give you gold, most of the time people would join in and gild the dumb comment.
Man if I’d have found this out back then I’d have ranted at you for ruining reddit.
That was before reddit ruined reddit
Wait are they charging people for upvoteing
It’s what the old gold used to be. They rebranded it and added a tiny incentive for content creators (like a dollar per gold, regardless of the level of gold, once you reach a certain karma level)
Really it’s just shittier reddit gold and another way reddit is trying to make money off of colorful arrows
Imagine the person (or more likely a whole group) who has spent weeks designing and iterating over those arrows.
More likely 30 minutes in the evening after playing games all day and working for someone else lol
No way…. Splez is watching
Is this real?
Fuck all that Reddit shit
What a bunch of scumbags
They’re paying the user this money or this is just for a fancy little icon next to the post like reddit gold used to be?
Not sure why the others are lying - disliking a platform is not a reason for spreading misinformation.
They are paying eligible users based on karma and gold.
Of course, the program is more of a “see, we have something” than a proper revenue share because of the “get at least 10 gold” criterium and all the other hoops you have to jump through.
Thank you for the correct answer! I would have gone on believing a lie had you not responded. Here’s their payout table:
Contributor Tier Karma (Over 12 mo period) Payout Rate (Dollars per Gold) Minimum Gold for payout Non-contributor 0-99 Karma No payout; balance rolls over n/a Contributor 100-4999 Karma $0.90 per 1 Gold 10 Top contributor 5000+ Karma $1.00 per 1 Gold 10 So they charge $2.69-$66.99 for gilding and only give the contributor $0.90-$1, keeping the rest. Wow, sounds like a shit deal for everyone but Reddit.
So basically this will give a very small handful of gallowboob-scale karma whores maybe a thousand dollars a year.
Assuming users are willing to pay for comments. I’d expect far fewer awards to be handed out now that they cost dollars.
$0.90 per gold ?
I mean shouldn’t that gave been:
$0.90 ger dollar given by golds?
Anyway, it smells like the large majority will work and get nothing, some “pro” accounts will maybe.
Reddit was mainly driven by lots of small ‘content-creators’ (I hate that word so much) like ordinary people sharing and helping.
Cheers to you all making posts and comments here (and well anywhere actually, because IMO it benefits humanity mostly).
I think the higher amounts in OP’s pic are multiples of “gold” (with $66.99 being 25 gold) and assume the payout would change per gold for what seems like a different currency than what that table is for (where 1 gold is $1.99 USD).
All that said, Reddit hasn’t really given any reason to give them the benefit of the doubt here, either, so it could very well be $1 per award no matter the amount paid for it.
with $66.99 being 25 gold
so they keep 60+%. I am not sure why people willing to support someone won’t do it directly vs giving a high percentage to a middle man.
You get $0.90 per gold - the fancier golden upvotes are worth multiple gold, with the most expensive one being worth 25 gold. So the post creator can claim 33% back
In all my years in reddit I only got gold once. The prerequisites of needing 10 is just bonkers.
After 10 years, approaching a million comment karma, and many sourced write-ups and copy pastas I got a fair amount. Probably 200 of a mixture of gold and the occasional platinum. This was concentrated in later years as I better understood reddit, and understood specific audiences more. I strove to give genuinely good information, too.
Unfortunately reddit’s admins are lazy, suck, and some subs’ moderators even worse (looking at r/news) and they screwed me. Their loss. I’ll find another platform to publish content, like here of course and elsewhere.
Right, so in a good year, you’d have gotten some beer money from it. And in return, you’d have to give reddit your real name and credit card information.
This is honestly even more pathetic than I ever imagined it could have been. Reddit is trying to emulate the “influencer” model from other social media, but doesn’t want to actually pony up cash to do it. YouTube has bought Mr Beast like six(?) houses at this point. Reddit won’t even buy your friends a round at the local pub.
Right. Unless you’re a complete power-user whose entire life revolves around reddit, even the it’s a massive risk akin to saying, “I’m going to go start a successful YouTube channel!” (which would still be a better venture).
But I don’t love reddit
Can’t wait for the ability to pay to bump your post to top.
You know that shits coming. Or something like ‘highlighted’ comments
Stonks
No $42.0? What a missed opportunity.
Do people get paid when their posts are gilded now?
Lmao fuck no, unless somehow in the last month Steve Huffman became a human being but I really don’t see that happening
So they’re just plain lying about it supporting them.
It supports them with feelings of pride and accomplishment.
Le 420xXx69 connoisseurs
Well clicking #69 was a little NSFW
First time I’ve noticed a hashtag as a Lemmy user.
Mine didn’t create a clickable link, did it?
It did not, you’re right.
Kbin & Mastodon only I suppose.