…so they got rid of awards in favor of adding arrow shaped awards?
Yes, but do you see the last one!? It is colorful on the outside and golden on the INSIDE
🖕🖕🏻🖕🏼🖕🏽🖕🏾🖕🏿
“Fingering supports the contributors you love.”
Remember to always tip your celebrities for promoting whatever dumb projects on on your Internet forums, god knows we could use the money.
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THAT WAS SARCASM
Yeah but can we get back to talking about I Don’t Even Remember The Name Oh Wait Rampart
You mean Barbie, right?
Because my movies are the only commercial interests permitted on Lemmy. Look at the banner of this community!
AMAs aren’t just marketing, now they’re money makers themselves!
It’s honestly pretty insulting.
They could hardly make it more explicit that reddit is profiting off content members create.
Is this real?
Yeah:
Giving gold supports the creators you love
I’m not going back to Reddit to find the answer but does any of this money actually go to the creators of the post that gets gold?
If they get at least 10 gold awarded to them within 12 months, and meet the karma/yr threshold, and stay in “good standing” , and aren’t nsfw, and any number of the other thresholds Reddit could use to say no, then they might get ~50% of the price paid to award it. Otherwise Reddit just keeps it all.
So someone has to work at this for a year before getting paid anything when they start out? Am I getting this right?
The 12 month thing isn’t a limit as far as I can tell. More that anything beyond that doesn’t count. So if you ended up meeting all the requirements within a day somehow, it would trigger then.
Oh yeah, that makes way more sense. Thanks
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Support as in the ‘stroke the ego’ sense not ‘help financially put food on the table and heat their home’ sense
I would really like to see lemmy add a ‘direct donation’ button to post and comments that links to their paypal or whatever. I think throwing a dollar or two directly at the person who made the comment or post you really liked is an infinitely better way to support them than throwing that money at a company so that they can award a shiny digital icon above the post.
While I like the sentiment, in reality I think it would do the same thing as it’s doing on Reddit - turn Lemmy into a huge bot farm trying to get money from real users.
This is a great point, I did not think about that. Thanks
No
They do, actually. Eligible creators (basically you have to live in the US, be over 18 and have made at least 100 karma in the last 12 months) can claim 33% of the money spent on the gold.
Please don’t just say “no” to a question without actually doing research. Disliking a platform isn’t a reason to spread misinformation about it.
Theoretically, yes. Supposedly (If you live in the US) you can cash out $0.90 for every ‘gold’ you receive. In the image, the leftmost golden upvote is worth one ‘gold’, and the rightmost is worth 25. This means that one gold is bought for $2.69, so the post creator can claim 33% of that money back if they are eligible. https://www.reddit.com/contributor-program
Holy shit I thought it was fake!
I’m not one for circle jerking but reddit is objectively becoming a shittier platform
I feel like all of them kinda are
Youtube and Discord conveniently added user tags for no reason literally the moment Twitter went down the already pretty deep hole.
Twitch’s favorite pastime is making bank on “unrelated” content
Facebook is just Facebook
Reddit has been constantly losing its appeal every year ever since they moved off the old layout.
Everyone adding/changing things in some meager attempt to drive profits and value without considering effects of user loss because social media is such an oligopoly it doesn’t matter.
Hiroshima has completely given up on ever making 4chan profitable, so it’s still full of porn and casual racism.
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.
Fuck all that Reddit shit
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
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
Turning Reddit into a career
A repost bot’s dream
This is off topic, but why isn’t there an animated gif of Bugs Bunny saying the “NO”? I mean, we have animated gifs for almost everything else, but I only see this as a static pic. Can no one find the cartoon that this is from and create a gif from it?
What a bunch of scumbags
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
Interesting idea, make the users pay to effectively moderate posts in a positive way, this won’t have large ramifications with what’s on the front page /s.
Reddit heard “mods are unpaid” and found a way to charge them.
