Reddit

Reddit's hypocrisy is mind-boggling!

After proving in recent weeks that 1) they want anything but free and independent communities, and 2) they want nothing more than complete control over their communities and their data, and 3) they have no interest in being an open platform (where are the 3rd part apps? why force the app when you open Reddit in a browser?), they have the nerve to say all this about freedom and independence?

Who believes it? Is this a way to win back lost users? Restore damaged trust? It's obviously not what they say it's about. Companies don't give away freedom, Reddit least of all. There's plenty of evidence for that.

Lmao the crypto bros on reddit are talking about how amazing this is - fucking morons lmao

Community points=CP? Back in my day, CP was something else

I had to keep reminding myself that it’s August, not April 1st. This is asinine.

The fact that it just spits out a CSV in an announcement post per subreddit that you have to manually download and CTRL+F your username is hilarious for a company this big. They couldn't implement a proper dashboard?

Embarassing. Does anyone in Silicon Valley have original thoughts anymore?

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

"Own your community with our blockchain bullshit, but fuck you gently if you try to exert any control over it if it works against our IPO."

What a bunch of shitbirds. Fuck me, I'm so glad I'm shut of that dumpster fire. Let 'er burn.

Damn that’s just strange. Reddits explanation still doesn’t really explain what “community points” actually do. I don’t really get what their angle is with this.

Why would they do a 180 (from recent policy) and talk about how subreddits should be semi-independent? And are they really planning on making “community points” based off if you moderate and post, rather than paying for them?

Rest in piss. "Got out at the right time" is underselling it.

Wow. I read through most of the pages. What a convoluted system! Besides several new terms that are interdependent and poorly defined, this scheme is going to be impossibly opaque to users and orders of magnitude more complex than upvote/downvote. I especially don't like that points are directly related to karma, when karma whoring and botting are prevalent. Last thing we need is karma earning one some measure of influence or control in a community.

They clearly think this is something people will simply get used to should they not enthusiastically embrace it. Why they think that in an era of other platforms dumbing down interaction to nothing more than an upvote I can't wrap my head around.

What a colossal waste of resources. Thankfully it appears to be opt in by sub for now, though I doubt that will last.

Cmon, grandpa spez... lets get you to bed.

So they cant take my Reddit coins like they took my reddit gold?

This Reddit coins on a blockchain has been happening for a while. The cryptocurrency subreddit had "Moons" for years now.

I sold 110k Moons as soon as they came out, nobody tell me how much they're worth now

Got an email from Reddit the other day telling me to "spend my Reddit coins while I still can". It reminded me that I still have a Reddit account, so I just login and delete it (mass delete all my posts and edit all my comments since July).

Do they not comprehend the irony of this? "It is time for communities to break free of walled gardens and take ownership of their existence online. Imagine a crypto future"

This'll surely help all the mods who have been begging for mod tools.

Aww, poor spez, missed the crypto hype by about a year. They say timing is the hardest part of product management, and spez again proves he is really fucking terrible at it.

"This limitation makes them second-class citizens"

You mean like being subject to arbitrary moderator abuse?