Firstly, they de-valued upvotes and the equality that every user’s opinion had before they were introduced.
And secondly, they were so abundant that they didn’t mean anything anyway.

  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    1 year ago

    Edit: thanks for the gold everyone! I never thought I’d make it this far! I’d like to thank my family, friends, and pet snail for this amazing accomplishment

    • qtieπ@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 year ago

      I hate how reddit silver went from being a community meme to a real award they made to get more money from people’s pockets

  • can@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 year ago

    It wasn’t as bad when there weren’t hundreds. Remember when reddit silver was an image someone made?

  • RheingoldRiver@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I have to say, I like discord’s reactions quite a bit. But I hated reddit’s awards with a violent passion. I’m not sure what the difference is, or if there would be a way to have a reaction-like feature in a public forum. Like, maybe a couple more options than just upvote & downvote (and maybe settable by the mods?) idk.

    But anyway, yeah, I agree. I hated the awards, a lot.

    • 50gp@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      discords global reactions is actually a smart way to monetise: a vanity feature that many frequent users may want and drives subs but doesnt ruin the platform

      meanwhile reddits pointless award spam is just so atrocious and tacky I used script to hide them lol

    • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Do you think you’d hate them less if they were all free like the reactions on discord (and so wouldn’t set aside payers from free users)? I lowkey think it was Reddit trying to make me feel jealous of the people paying that made me hate them.

  • BedSharkPal@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I think they would take on a new meaning if the money went to actually running the service and not to corporate profiteering though.
    Like if or not unless we go full wikipedia model, as these sites grow they’ll need some sort of income to pay the bills.

  • EvilMonkeySlayer@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, I didn’t mind them. If they had them on kbin I wouldn’t mind as long as that money went to server upkeep etc. Somebody has to pay for hosting.

  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.mlOP
    0·
    1 year ago

    ‘This person deserves praise for what they wrote so I’m going to pay Reddit money’

    I suppose this design may make a bit more sense in the Fediverse, where the money could go directly to the user, or at least to the instance or, say, a charity of the user’s choice, but I still think that having awards would clutter comments sections. /rant

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
      1·
      1 year ago

      Back before Reddit was mostly being run by VCs, Reddit gold was actually able to cover the site’s running costs. They used to have a meter on the front page that showed every day when enough gold had been bought to pay for the day’s hosting costs. They probably could have kept up that dynamic forever, but instead they insisted on going after even more profit.