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Reddit is getting rid of its Gold awards system (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Reddit is going to sunset its current coins and awards systems, meaning you won’t be able to buy Reddit Gold for posts you like. However, it is working on a new system for awards.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It wasn't that bad, gold just signals that the comment is good (intensity), but some of the other awards made explicit the way in which it is good (hue/flavour) e.g. funny, informative, creative, sarcastic...I actually liked the award system (even if I always was a bit suspicious of who was giving them and what their intentions were)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A few years ago, when the only award available was gold, I used to occasionally buy gold to award comments I really like. Back then buying gold was the only monetization in reddit so it was pretty well received. I stopped doing that around the time they implemented coins and ramping up ads.