Reddit kills awards and coins
Hi all, I’m u/venkman01 from the Reddit product team, and I’m here to give everyone an early look at the future of how redditors award (and...
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I bet they just don't like seeing all the awards go to fuck u/Spez posts.
I think that's actually closer to the mark than many realize. Awards are great when they are not directed at the company or it's rep in a negative manner as they show positive engagement and help the company with sales marketing. When awards and upvote/downvote counters are used to highlight that the users are having a negative experience then it hurts the platform image. Similarly to how YouTube removed the downvote tracker because their marketing team realized it hurt their sales revenue with business partners.
TBH, I don't think they care. It is monetization and engagement of their microtransactions...as smug as they may be, I think it's all about $
Agreed, just because spez is getting repeatedly dunked on, he wouldn't want to prevent them from paying him for the pleasure.
That would fit with the Musk comparisons
I was going to post, "Do they understand their user base?" but after reading your post, I believe they do.
They had the good part of a month to understand.
Most likely so.
That's where I'm putting my money. They don't want clearly shit dogshit admin posts to get poor awards