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> But note that many of the posters edited their posts saying "don't give me awards". This shows a contradiction between trying to do the right thing while in p

> But note that many of the posters edited their posts saying "don't give me awards". This shows a contradiction between trying to do the right thing while in public. This is a phenomenon all over reddit and not unique to this situation in subreddit comments sections, it's been going on ever since reddit rolled out the paid gold concept. A non-zero number of people edit their comments (when they get popular) to the like of "stop giving me awards, go donate to this charity instead" to try and get readers to spend their money on a good cause related to the post subject matter. (I love animals subreddits, so see it a lot in the various places "go donate to this shelter / coservation" or similar attempt to redirect money)

wutbrodo 6y ago
In this case people are saying "don't give me awards, you're sending the subject of my complaint money"
- stonesweep 6y ago
  Same thing happens when someone rants about the New reddit (redesign) or some other "I don't like this at all" post/comment about reddit itself - people start giving it awards if they agree. shakes head like Foghorn Leghorn
freeflight 6y ago
I find that whole thing a bit odd considering the "award spam" only got as extreme as it's now when Reddit started handing out temporary free awards to users for them to give away in addition to the occasional gold coins. Case in point: I never spend money on Reddit yet I have given out a whole bunch of awards. Organizing this with a bunch of alt accounts should make it trivial to just hand out mass-awards for free.
- stonesweep 6y ago
  My take is it applies to a certain personality type (not sure what kind, not my specialty - just see the patterns) - on last year's profile I got some sort of award for just joining a sub or making a comment or some other no-value low-effort action. shrug It maybe ties into whether giving away awards for any reason was part of your school/childhood? Wasn't part of mine so not embedded in my psyche? (just pondering)

wutbrodo 6y ago

In this case people are saying "don't give me awards, you're sending the subject of my complaint money"

stonesweep 6y ago
Same thing happens when someone rants about the New reddit (redesign) or some other "I don't like this at all" post/comment about reddit itself - people start giving it awards if they agree. shakes head like Foghorn Leghorn

freeflight 6y ago

I find that whole thing a bit odd considering the "award spam" only got as extreme as it's now when Reddit started handing out temporary free awards to users for them to give away in addition to the occasional gold coins. Case in point: I never spend money on Reddit yet I have given out a whole bunch of awards. Organizing this with a bunch of alt accounts should make it trivial to just hand out mass-awards for free.

stonesweep 6y ago
My take is it applies to a certain personality type (not sure what kind, not my specialty - just see the patterns) - on last year's profile I got some sort of award for just joining a sub or making a comment or some other no-value low-effort action. shrug It maybe ties into whether giving away awards for any reason was part of your school/childhood? Wasn't part of mine so not embedded in my psyche? (just pondering)