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Reddit’s new Contributor Program will let you cash out gold given to your posts by other users in real money.(www.theverge.com)

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CrazyEddie041@kbin.social
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Oh good. Now they’re literally paying the karma-farming bots to spam recycled and stolen content. That will surely end well.

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xc2215x@lemmy.world
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More karma farming is going to happen.

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Jordan117@lemmy.world
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Convenient (for them) that they start this only after destroying all the coins people earned over years of using the site. I had over 80k coins and 18 years of premium from various awarded posts (all OC) that they just threw away for nothing.

If they respected my contributions, I might be excited about this, but now I plan on contributing absolutely nothing of value ever again.

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WrittenWeird@lemmy.world
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u/poem_for_your_sprog?

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Fisk400@feddit.nu
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Reddit is getting into money laundering I see.

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Aatube@kbin.social
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Caveats: gold is not eligible in NSFW, trauma support, or quarantined subreddits.

what

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Fisk400@feddit.nu
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Probably because they dont want to incentive people to go there and make up stories about in order to get sympathy gold.

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bogdugg@sh.itjust.works
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I’m guessing they don’t want non-qualified individuals benefiting monetarily from mental health services. I can only assume it’s a legal can of worms.

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SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
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But not relationship and advice subs?

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Zron@lemmy.world
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Why shouldn’t creative writing get benefits?

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🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]@lemmygrad.ml
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Hey, at least it should keep the bots out of there, if it offers consolation. I can’t imagine they’re not doing this to cover their butt.

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cesium@sh.itjust.works
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How will they even enforce that?

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Aatube@kbin.social
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It’s quite easy to make a list of existing large trauma support subs, just search “trauma” and they’ll probably include the top 3 pages

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FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world
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Yeah fuck all of this.

Top to bottom.

This feels like crypto, NFT silicon valley bro bullshit. I just know Spez has a fucking erection every time it gets mentioned .

Let’s welcome the next wave of Redditors to the Fediverse everyone .

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