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>First, many don’t appreciate the clutter from awards (50+ awards right now, but who’s counting?) and all the steps that go into actually awarding content. Seco

>First, many don’t appreciate the clutter from awards (50+ awards right now, but who’s counting?) and all the steps that go into actually awarding content. Second, redditors want awarded content to be more valuable to the recipient. So, nuclear option, of course. The "clutter" of rewards is something recipients take great pride in. I have never, ever, been privy to a convo where a user griped about there not being enough payoff for an award that was GIFTED. The "steps" involved hitting the "award gold" button, and being taken to a very standard e-commerce checkout process. What "steps" are there to complain about? my 12 plus years on Reddit says this is fishy. Awards slow the doomscroll down, is what I suspect the problem is.

astronads 3y ago
Apparently from inspecting the Reddit app APK, they are planning to allow rewarding contributors monetarily (probably with crypto) https://www.androidauthority.com/reddit-contributor-program-3343397/ https://www.androidauthority.com/reddit-contributor-program-... This will likely turn Reddit into a (even bigger) cesspool of karma farming spam/bots and bullshit AI posts now that they can make a quick buck off it.
- DistractionRect 3y ago
  My reddit use and dropped dramatically with the death of third party clients, but this I think will push me off entirely. That just actively encourages reposting old threads and their comments wholesale.
  - ChainOfFools 3y ago
    Many years ago I made the laziest shitposting bot for 4chan ever, called trolldozer. which did almost exactly this, simple keyword matching and some homegrown weights assigned to a couple dozen known sequences. the bot just kept a roling snapshot window of posts made between 150-190 hours before the current time, found the oldest one that was most similar to a sequence of popular keywords in a given thread, and reposted to the end of iit but with no image link. Of course being anonymous this worked pretty well even if it got saged frequently, presumably when someone spotted their own post being reposted.
- mighmi 3y ago
  People used to award others Dodgecoin and a few others for a while. At some point it even became worth a bit, before losing value again.

astronads 3y ago

Apparently from inspecting the Reddit app APK, they are planning to allow rewarding contributors monetarily (probably with crypto) https://www.androidauthority.com/reddit-contributor-program-3343397/ https://www.androidauthority.com/reddit-contributor-program-... This will likely turn Reddit into a (even bigger) cesspool of karma farming spam/bots and bullshit AI posts now that they can make a quick buck off it.

DistractionRect 3y ago
My reddit use and dropped dramatically with the death of third party clients, but this I think will push me off entirely. That just actively encourages reposting old threads and their comments wholesale.
- ChainOfFools 3y ago
  Many years ago I made the laziest shitposting bot for 4chan ever, called trolldozer. which did almost exactly this, simple keyword matching and some homegrown weights assigned to a couple dozen known sequences. the bot just kept a roling snapshot window of posts made between 150-190 hours before the current time, found the oldest one that was most similar to a sequence of popular keywords in a given thread, and reposted to the end of iit but with no image link. Of course being anonymous this worked pretty well even if it got saged frequently, presumably when someone spotted their own post being reposted.
mighmi 3y ago
People used to award others Dodgecoin and a few others for a while. At some point it even became worth a bit, before losing value again.