Reddit may be tricking users to buy awards/coins - RedditMigration - kbin.social
kbin.socialRecently, Reddit announced that they may be discontinuing awards/coins on September 12. However I'm skeptical and I think this may be just a deceptive announcement for them to make a quick buck from awards/coins. What are your opinions on this?
Recently, Reddit announced that they may be discontinuing awards/coins on September 12. However I’m skeptical and I think this may be just a deceptive announcement for them to make a quick buck from awards/coins. What are your opinions on this?
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Just looks like reddit shot themselves in the right foot, then tried to fix it by shooting themselves in the left foot.
Oh, I don’t know if you’ve heard the rumors that they may be planning to move to an irl cash system to reward high karma earners, but the genitals are next.
They fixed the problem of shooting their feet by amputating both legs.
Not a rumor, just they announced it. Cash for high profile posts. Kinda like Elon paying all that cash to human rights trafficker, rapist, and all around disgusting human Andrew Tate, for bringing in advertising revenue one day before announcing that they have lost over 50% of advertisers on their platform.
And then saying advertisers are coming back, which is probably a flat face lie once AdAge confirms it.
Nah.
Firstly, you no longer can buy coins and awards. Three days ago they posted this:
So currently they can not make any quick bugs with coins and awards as they no longer are buy-able.
Additionally, since all coins/awards expire on that date, there is zero reason to get more. Right now you want to get rid of what you have, not stock up just so Reddit can delete your inventory of coins.
This would be different if they announced some beneficial exchange rate for real money or their new system or kept coins you own available indefinitely (or at least way longer), which indeed would trigger some people to stock up “just in case I want to award someone later on”.
This is a clean cut, meant to renew the system by first tearing down the old one completely, without leaving anything in place, and then introducing something entirely new. I don’t necessarily agree with their communication and deadlines but I don’t think there is anything foul at work here. They just want a new system and follow their current trend of rushing everything.
I still have coins. Do you have any advice on how to use them? Is there any word out there about it?
Someone advised me half an hour ago to award them to comments talking about other platforms, and I think I’m gonna go with that one for myself
That’s what I did with my coins too.
Or give all your gold to a [deleted] account
Or give is to u/spez, so he can enjoy all the features of his own platform
I’ll give it to spez if he says the line first
Jokes on them either way, been on Reddit for 12 years and I haven’t bought a fuckin’ award or coin or nft or dingle-dangle or bingle-bongle from Reddit yet and that ain’t changing today lol
I don’t think that after this announcement people will still buy coins / awards. A lot of them have coins and by default awards through premium membership or because they actually bought it. What you see now is really angry people gifting awards and through this spending coins before they vanish in September.
Because of this stunt even more redditors cancelled premium. And you see a lot of people who lose trust and wont spend money on the platform in the future.
reddit is the only site that can kill revenue sources and somehow survive
I had a few coins for some reason, so I gave out some “fuck spez” awards. I wont be buying any.