The website has been knocking it out of the park for popular decisions lately /s
We all know this is happening with Reddit gold, however I thought it would be relevant to point out that there has been fallout amongst Reddit Premium subscribers.
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I don’t understand. Don’t they like money? I like money!
And yet somehow they say that’s their reasoning - that they’re trying to become profitable.
So someone did some math and figured out that the award system was unprofitable somehow?
Don’t know how that works out.
Or maybe they are willing to take the hit because they are embarrassed when posts and comments criticizing Reddit get a ton of awards? (Plenty of people already have a large cache of Reddit coins, so handing out an award is not necessarily paying anything to Reddit at the time of award.)
That’s a good point, lol.
No, according to The Verge’s article, they say that users don’t like the current system:
And there are hints as to what may be slated to replace it:
OTOH, this post in r/ModCoord posits a different explanation: