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Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Reddit enrages users again by ditching thank-you coins and awards::Reddit, which is still dealing with the fallout from its last controversial decision, said it plans to phase out coins and awards.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It was such a nice way to monetize, just a teensy little icon on posts you could easily ignore. Tells you whatever replaces it is gonna be far less acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Gonna be they're version of a blue check mark. Buy the widget and it stays at the top regardless of up votes or down votes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

they'll make blue aliens more important and always float to the top like the blue check robot armies on twitter lmao