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do people actually give out argentium?
It was what inspired this post, I saw it on that "cancer patient" fake post and was like "what award is that?"
If I had cancer I rather have the $40 than a fucking reddit award.
Edit: son of a bitch
At least we have the satisfaction of knowing that person feels stupid for giving it given that it was fake and the karma whore didn’t get anything of actual value. It’s really a win win.
EDIT: Argentium? Really? I can’t tell if you just spent $40 ironically or not. Thanks?
Except a corporation found yet another way to profit off human compassion.
Or a corporation found a way for its users to voluntarily crowd-fund the website they use, reducing it's reliance on advertising.
Not saying either take is right but this is the other extreme of interpretation.
I'm with you right here. I enjoy Reddit. I don't like ads. I pay for the monthly subscription to get rid of ads and support a company that makes a software product/platform that I use every day.
They give me Reddit coins every month as part of my subscription. So what if I want to save up the equivalent of a $40 USD award and drop it on someone's comment to encourage positive community behavior?
EDIT Apparently, I, who have never been gifted so much as a silver, have been lifted up into the shoulders of Queens and Kings and given the coveted Stonks Rising. Oh, and an Argentium.
People love to complain about reddit awards without realising that the alternative is way more intrusive
And people on Reddit just genuinely like to complain
You can filter the idiotic awards out though. I do. And with adblock I've never seen an ad or a sponsored post.
Tencent thanks you, and 50 Yuan have been transfered to your account.
The alternative is a distributed Usenet replacement based on federated open protocols.
The alternative is already way more intrusive since Reddit's value stems mostly from its user data and being able to sell front page post and top votes comments as ads without them looking blatantly like ads.
Something Reddit already does.
The alternative:
using adblock on your desktop
using an ad free app on your phone
so intrusive!
I've been coming around to this way of thinking for a while now. I got my first gold the other day, and it just might be the catalyst for me to purchase a subscription. I spend as much or more time on Reddit weekly as I do on Netflix/Hulu/Spotify, so why not pay a bit?
Encouraging positive community behavior with awards is a bit of a double-edge sword though. The fake cancer patient being the most recent example of people taking advantage of the goodwill of others. Thankfully, major transgressions like that don't seem to occur that frequently.
Oh I know it doesn't necessarily always work, seeing that "If I could afford to give you gold…" gets a lot of gold awards across the subs I read… but the idea is there. I just wonder what the ratio of awards given via subscription coins vs outright purchasing coins to give an award actually is.
You already pay for it with your personal data that they exploit for profit, as well as the traffic you provide which they leverage into more lucrative offers for advertising and propaganda and no, I'm not talking about the openly sponsored posts.
"If the product is free, you're the product" applies here.
I hate Reddit awards because it means people with money have the ability to make posts stand out. Opinions are not equal on this site.
Hate to break it to you, but opinions have never been equal here.
In fact, people will downvote correct information they disagree with, and upvote something incorrect that supports their ideas. Heck, on the same post I've seen the same opinion both downvoted and upvoted. Its that reddit karma lottery.
Six $40 awards in this chain. Reddit will be rich!
Yeah I get shit from people when I pay for stuff that in theory I don't have to pay for, like Reddit or premium versions of apps or private newsletters. I enjoy the content, I use it a lot, and I want to support the people that make it, often without ads. If other people don't want to then fine, don't pay for it, but allow me to spend my money how I want to.
They are going to run out sometime soon and stop wasting money
How did someone gift all of the people in this thread Argentium? Someone's too rich.
Do you guys seriously think reddit doesn't make money off of advertising? Everything on this damn site is a hidden ad, and reddit makes money off of it.
That's not to mention all the real in your face ads the website has.
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Reddit has just as many or more ads than other social media sites, they are just much more cleverly hidden.
You're not reducing anything, you're encouraging them to keep doing what they're doing by giving them more money. Just look at any of the serial reposters and how many "days of server time" their awards have paid for.
You check only a few and see that several years of operating costs are already more than covered. This bullshit has far eclipsed any notion of paying to keep a bastion of free speech operating.
That's how it used to be, and I loved that model! I think it's totally fair.
But then they started squeezing money out of advertising as much as they could which led to the redesign and integrated ads.
Pick a model, Reddit. I'll buy awards again when this stops being a place that's only specifically safe for advertisers. I don't even mean the politics, I mean the diversity of subreddits to discover has decreased. I want the old front page algorithm back, because now /r/all is somehow worse than it used to be because it's more ad friendly.
Not that I expect my single opinion will change anything, but Reddit gets stale quicker now than it did 3, 5, even 10 years ago.
I'll buy awards again when...
I won't buy awards ever. I hate this site with its fucking shitty ass upvote-downvote system. It's absolute cancer, and now it's everywhere.
It's a good idea in theory. The "Reddiquette" says that all votes must be based on relevancy, not opinion. Once subreddits got so big that quality dropped, rarely anyone adhered to those rules.
The constant cycle of new users makes it impossible to promote that idea and people just use it like a like/dislike button. It's actually still listed in the Reddiquette, but they stopped promoting it years ago outside of your initial welcome message:
- Vote. If you think something contributes to conversation, upvote it. If you think it does not contribute to the subreddit it is posted in or is off-topic in a particular community, downvote it.
This site got too big for it's own good. They should give moderators more administrative powers.
reducing it's reliance on advertising.
BAHAHAHAHA!
You're serious?
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It's great that you think I'm cute, but none of us know what their actual motivations are so please don't mistake your own cynicism for a lack of naiveté.
The award line skipped you lmao
Why would we want someone who thought they were doing a nice thing for a cancer patient (as nice as a random stranger could really do) feel stupid?
The karma whore, sure. No one likes a fake story parading as a real one.
But whether we want to admit it or not, people do feel cheered up by these fake awards. So if someone wants to spend their money to do that, I don’t get why we should want them to feel bad about doing something nice?
I'm just laughing at your post. Like you got paid to call someone stupid. Truly a win/win.
And stupid amounts of karma. This really wasn’t my intention.
You think Kanye is up in here making it rain? It could be a p/r stunt for President lol.
Win-win minus an undeserved $40 straight to Tencent's pockets.
So, apparently, If I reply to you, I also get off brand Adamantium?
Edit: apparently not.
Yeah reddit rewards are so weird to me. Especially on some of the subs that are for disorders or something. Like if I'm on a cancer sub, don't donate $40 to Reddit so I get a cute emoji. Donate $40 to cancer research.
Edit - You bastard
It's especially weird that every comment that points out how pointless Rewards are promptly gets a Reward.
Edit: ok its kind of funny but whoever is giving out awards, consider donating to charities or street musicians or whatever instead of shoving money up Reddits ass. I personally really struggled with money these past few weeks and its not fun to calculate in your head while buying groceries so that you stay below your last 5€, and my comment is apparently worth 40 bucks
It's okay, they only spent $40 on a Reddit picture "ironically".
Reddir award are pointless. I mean u can spend 40$ on something with value or food not on fictional internet points
Gotta love the extra long comment threads hoping for the Argentium
Not sure whether you say that to continue the conversation or to get Argentium..........
Also, why is it called Argentium? It's just derived from Latin for silver, yet it's so expensive. It makes zero sense...
Anyway: random Argentium-Scatterer, bless me with your power!
Maybe it's the guy above who says he has 14,000 coins and doesn't quite know what to do with them.
An argentium thread of awards would fix that pretty quickly lol
As someone that has 16000 coins just because I have had Premium for forever and never give out awards, basically this
See, I love giving awards, I'd never be able to save them lol. I mod a few subs and it's a great way to say thank you for a good post or comment.
From little 50-coin ones to having just given my first platinum to someone. I have thought of purchasing coins for just this reason alone lol. But then, it's not the same as rec'g the gift and the "pay it forward" thing.
Yeah, I mean I do it occasionally but mostly just forget haha
Dude, now you just sound thirsty. Thirsty people don't get $40 reddit awards.
I've got a bunch of reddit coins (I think I had some reddit app that when it was discontinued gave everyone several year of reddit gold, so I was just racking up coins for a while). Any time I've given an award its been from my stash of free coins.
But yeah that one award is 20k coins, which would be a ton of months of free coins.
Your edit got a big ole chuckle out of me.
If I didn't have cancer I'd prefer $40 to a Reddit award
If I didn't have a reddit award I'd prefer $40 to cancer.
I've seen people tip using cryptocurrency. I wish it was more widespread.
Same, I’d just HATE to get argentium, that’d just ruin my day completely.
Oh man I hope no one wastes their money on you with an Argentium Award rn
Honestly imagine spending 40 dollars for Reddit. That's 40 McChickens without tax.
Thats like 320 half-quarters
Yeah, thanks for giving a left wing propaganda site $40 for a 25x25px icon next to my post...
It’s all fucked bros
i'd rather have cancer than the $40 reddit award
I wonder how much he could have pulled if he made a fake go fund me. Ofc that would be super illegal but would he have been caught? Also was this illegal? He lied and got monitory gain kinda?
i think if i had cancer sentiment would mean alot more to me the materialism so i kinda get it
Well you need money for pay for cancer treatment. So I'll take materialism all the way in that situation.
For real lol I’d much rather have the money
But at the same time getting useless awards is pretty satisfying, my old account had like 6 months worth of reddit premium from gold awards, all from my favorite games page
Then I guess I got too cocky or something and got banned lmao so I just made a new account, what a waste of awards
If I didn't have cancer, I'd rather have the $40 than a fucking Reddit reward.
What post would that be?
The post is gone, but here’s a screenshot of it from r/awfuleverything
Doesn't argentium mean silver?
It doesn't matter. What matters is that it sounds damn cool.
Unless you know what argentium means.
Not exactly relevant to the conversation, but does your username work?
Asking for a friend
Nowhere close to as often as I'd hoped.
It’s ambiguous, that’s why.
Are they supposed to be my favorite boobs or yours? Favorite boobs to look at or to touch or to cuddle on? Do you only want the people attached to the titties to PM or are you cool with random internet links? Do you accept exceptionably verbose descriptions a la r/menwritingwomen or only HD pics with u/username captured in the photo?
So many questions. The lack of clarity is holding you back, man.
It’s ambiguous, that’s why.
It's why I used this name. You can't know my favorite boobs, so all you can do is send your own favorites.
Many of them that I've seen have been their own boobs. Other favorites are various celebrities.
I'll accept any that anyone sends to me. (But not in the new reddit chat interface: pm only, unless someone persuades me that the chat interface is worth bothering with; my reason is that I'm not a fan of the new interface.)
Who the fu*k is throwing all these Argentiums away?
Can confirm. Am friend.
Somehow I don't think the kind of people who buy these things are the kind of people to know basic wordlore.
Sounds like we need some unobtainium!
Stop giving Reddit ideas lest we end up with another 117 (?) awards.
Unobtainium is already a thing. The only post with it is the General Grievous with a bunch of lightsabers post on r/Prequelmemes
Please explain ???
Thibson34's top all time post on r/Prequelmemes is the only post on Reddit with the "Unobtainium" award. Probably awarded by a Reddit staff member.
That’s insane! It says “animated award test” in the description. Super cool!
Okay - hear me out, there was some book/blog post or something that talked about how unobtainium is actual industry jargon for unclassified material that would be difficult to mine.
Again - I don't remember the details and I'm too lazy to go Google it to present it in a better way - but turns out that wasn't the dumb movie detail that it appears to be.
I recall a conversation on a sub where you can ask questions about scifi books (I am on mobile and don't want the hassle of looking, sorry).
Someone asked about the movie Avatar and about the "unobtainium" that they were mining, and wanted to know something about why the directors didn't give the material a name.
Someone responded with an answer that sounds similar to what you described.
Almost -- "argentum" (no i) is silver. "Argentium" seems to be a completely made up word, but it certainly doesn't mean "distinguished" in Latin.
Argentum is silver but Argentium is a branded silver alloy. Similar to how sterling silver is a silver alloy.
All words are made up
I keep thinking it’s Argentina
Alright, Who’s the mad lad who gave him it? Who is it?
Edit: I’d be fitting that everyone below me got the $40 award
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You: haha I'll give an award to u/yepp27 aswell
EDIT : lol
EDIT 2 : please no one give me silver
EDIT 3 : please no one give me gold
EDIT 4 : please no one give me platinum
EDIT 5 : please no one give me argentinium
EDIT 6 : I'm still waiting for someone to not give me argentinium
EDIT 7 : thanks I can die happy now
There are too many awards, and gold isn’t what it used to be, you only get a week instead of a month.
Wait awards are more than just shiny stickers next to your comments? I've been on Reddit for like a year and I've never really thought about them
Edit: it took me 5 days to work out I got this gold lol
Continue not to. It's best that way.
They're just used as highlighters really. Sometimes it seems like people just reward themselves.
Yeah it's just a taste of premium no-ads reddit anyway, and besides reddit isn't riddled with that many annoying ads yet
By the time it does, it'll be 2021 and Earth is no more
Yep. The lower level ones like Healthcare Hero are just stickers but you get more benefits (in the form of Reddit premium and coins) from higher level awards.
Example: here’s a week of premium and 100 coins.
What irritates me is that there are perks to gold that honestly should have been standard by now. Like categorizing your saves.
Wait I’ve received gold multiple times and didn’t know you could do that... is that only on desktop?
Saving comments and filtering /r/all used to be gold-exclusive features
The awards lose a bit of their value when there’s so many of them; now, instead of seeing that more people gave gold than silver and knowing people liked this post this much, we see a giant wall of one or two of every award and it’s just overwhelming since we have no idea what most of them are worth.
What do you get for a week? What does getting awards do?
I have never gotten an award 😢
EDIT : now I have, thank you kind strangers
EDIT 2 : kind stranger, you're too kind
EDIT 3: as I got back home I couldn't but smile, thank you for the argentium. I don't know who you area but you made my day
Than I shall give you thy silver
I'm very much obliged, kind stranger
Don't mind giving me argentinium
I would, if the amount of argentinium I can give wasn't equal to my self esteem
Silver is the only one I've ever gotten. Whats the lowest level award that unlocks something?
"Coin gift" - costs 300 coins, gives 250. Also enjoy.
I have only ever received one award (that I can remember) and it was a platinum award for a random comment on a Rick Astley video, given by Rick Astley (or whoever is in charge of his Reddit account). Everyone in the comment section was getting it.
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Can we stop with the award whoring in this thread please? I'd feel ashamed if I made someone waste $40 they probably needed elsewhere just to make an ironic statement.
It’s like people only do things for awards, and that’s just sad.
If I was able to buy awards through RIF, I'd do it just to prove you wrong. I'm not firing up my laptop or downloading another app just for that though.
I get your dilemma..I have rif and the reddit app. When I want to give an award, I save the comment or post on rif then open the official app, go to my saved section, open the post, then award.. It's a pain in the ass, but it keeps me from doing it really frivolously.
Reddit: noooo you can't just leave a self-aware comment to get awards
Me and u/yepp27: haha post button go brrrrr
Edit: Nooo don't give me gold, you're so sexy aha
Edit 2: Nooo don't give me argentium, you're so sexy aha
Haha dumbass at least you tried
Edit: nvm
I got a cute little gecko thing so I think I'm the real winner here
EDIT 6: I'm still waiting for someone to not give me argentium
Bold of you to assume anyone's not stupid enough to actually not give you Argentium
Pls no one cashapp @KuciMane $40 for wingstop this week
EDIT: I absolutely love Reddit. Thank you sir I hope 1000 blessings come your way
aswell
first, you must apologize for this linguistic abomination
I apologise. Hebrew is my main language. Now awards.
fine but you should at least have fixed it, you monster
Don’t buy me an award you’re literally paying reddit for nothing lol
Hey can I get one?
I suppose I could give you silver
haha argentium go brrr
ha you'll never get it like me
Whoever is going to award this for irony's sake, i'll take the award on their behalf due to the retardation levels of said comment.
Hello can I get an award for a sub comment ? Can I get that 40 dollar award ?
Anyone ? Anyone ?
Edit: oh SNAP I just got out trolled , hat tip you sir or madam .
What is this, a /r/wallstreetbets crossover episode?
Someone gave it to me a couple weeks ago. Said I made them laugh a lot.
I wish that instead of lousy image next my post someone would just give me the money directly. Then I could buy food or something
Are you struggling with access to food? I could buy you a pizza or something.
I wouldn't say struggling, but getting paid work has been hard. Thanks for the sentiment :)
Any time. I’ve been in that situation before and it’s such a mental beat down, I don’t want anyone else to experience it. Please let me know if things turn and you need a meal. Cheers 💙
Hey you’re a good person and I’m glad you’re around. Please keep being you.
Quick, give both of them awards!
If the cupboards are getting bare, may I suggest you make an Amazon wishlist (ideally with Prime items) and post it over on /r/Food_Pantry? Lots of good folks over there, I think you'd be surprised. Tag me if you do it.
But then Reddit would have less money and they love having money.
It’s a business what do you expect them to do?
A few months ago I posted this LPT
I was shit on, and it was removed for being a "social tip"
Just link your PayPal next to every comment and post.
The Hangover made me laugh a lot, but I wouldn’t pay $40 to see it.
I agree. I don't understand Reddit awards. I'm too old for it I think. I have a uBlock cosmetic filter that hides them and the button to give awards.
It’s a brilliant move from Reddit’s side. It’s practically free money to them, and they know it’ll get bought because they know how obsessed a lot of these users are with the feeling of validation. They essentially found a way to monetize karma with “super-karma” or whatever else you want to classify awards as.
And in exchange, users get a Reddit which is less dependent (not "not" dependent, but less) on advertising by large companies who then try to assert influence on discussions.
I actually think awards are a great way for Reddit to make money, and it would be amazing if they could fund entirely using that (getting rid of ads, sponsored posts, etc). In that scenario the overquoted (and borderline im14andthisisdeep) "you're the product" meme wouldn't really be true about the users any more.
They actually fool people like you into thinking the site doesn't have advertising by making all the ads masquerade as normal content. Gold is also a great way to make your own comment or post look more legitimate. 1 dollar is way too much to give a stranger for a comment on the internet. But what if you make a comment, upvote it with 30 alt accounts and then spend a dollar to give yourself gold. Then bam suddenly it looks like you made a good point people agree with. Gets a ton of attention cause of how rare it is for people to find a comment worth real money. And you only had to spend a dollar...
Ads that masquerade as 'normal content' get them $0. Unless you are referring to the posts that are ads, but they are very clearly marked as ads/
Hey, would you mind sharing how you set up this filter?
I use old.reddit, so these likely won't work for you if you use the new design. Nonetheless, here are my Reddit filters for uBlock:
reddit.com##.give-gold-button
reddit.com##.awardings-bar
reddit.com##.premium-banner
reddit.com##.premium-banner-outer
reddit.com###tb-notification-alert
reddit.com##.listingsignupbar
reddit.com##[data-author="AutoModerator"].stickied
reddit.com##[data-promoted="true"]
reddit.com##[data-crosspost-root-score]
reddit.com##.res-show-link
reddit.com##.happening-now
The top two are the ones you are looking for.
How does one get this filter?
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Sounds even stupider in that application.
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It will be unpopular, but it's millennial, gen Z stupidity and frivolity with money.
No doubt cost of living is too expensive and wages and opportunities are down... but it doesn't help that the whole generation is actually open to doing things like buying skins and fake awards.
I don't believe you. Say something funny to prove it.
Funny how?
Why not just leave a comment/reply telling you that, instead of giving $40 to someone else to vaguely express it?
You should pass the good karma along .
I know I would certainly like one ☝️ .
Edit : no I wanted the 40 dollar one .
Edit 2 : you see children it never hurts to ask for expensive things , just remember that the next time you’re standing on the street corner! 💩
I got it twice in a series of comments making fun of Argentium. The comments were in r/PlatinumUserClub, so I'm not sure if they're visible in my profile, unless you've gotten Platinum at some point. So far, r/ArgentiumClub only has 72 members so, but the invite isn't automatic like r/PlatinumUserClub.
What do they do in those clubs? What are 72 members chatting about? I see that the platinum users are just chatting about the argentium ones :P
Both subs are basically r/aww. Mostly pet photos.
That is so wholesome
Is it fun to be on these clubs? Are you in these clubs for life or is it like a certain time period?
Edit: Thank you anonymous user!
Edit 2: I realized people say Thank you kind stranger. So thank you kind stranger :)
Those 2 are permanent.
Awards give you temporary access to r/lounge, the Premium subreddit. because you are technically a Reddit Premium member for that time.
But r/PlatinumUserClub and r/ArgentiumClub are for users that received those particular awards. Access to them is permanent because you'll always have the award on your account.
As for "fun", r/PlatinumUserClub is nice, but it's not too much different from any of the major subreddits. You can post almost anything as long as it's civil and SFW, but the majority of posts are picture of people's pets. Since the sub doesn't have a set topic, you do see a wider array of discussions. Not much to say about r/ArgentiumClub though. It's pretty inactive because there's only 72 members.
It's about to have many more, looking at this whole thread.
I saw 18 Argentium awards. That's around $720. More or less depending on the quantities of coins bought at any time. Can you imagine having that kind of money where you just blow it on a reddit thread?
And I feel wasteful for spending $100 on a Steam sale, even though I'll likely get hundreds of hours of entertainment in return.
Ugh yeah, I feel you. You think it was the same person though? That's crazy, $700 on this dumb thread.
Maybe? When I got it twice, it was the same guy, and he bought all 6 in that thread. I got so many "hey, can I get in on this" replies from people hoping to get the same award hours after it had been gifted.
I just think 1 rich idiot is more probable than 18 slightly less rich idiots.
I think you're allowed as long as premium given by said reward lasts.
No, it's permanent. Awards give you temporary access to r/lounge. because you are technically a Reddit Premium member for that time. But r/PlatinumUserClub and r/ArgentiumClub are for users that received those particular awards. Access to them is permanent because you'll always have the award on your account.
For $44 you could buy access for life? What a steal.
/r/centuryclub and /r/eternityclub are more exclusive. Having certain spaces be more difficult to get into makes the content a little more personable than many other places on reddit.
How do you get into those?
For /r/centuryclub, have over 100,000 karma (either post karma or comment karma, but not combined).
For /r/eternityclub, have a post hit the front page of /r/all.
Wow that is pretty neat.
/r/centuryclub is full of a bunch of ego ridden assholes though.
This one dude has a fucking meme named after him for posting selfies outside the selfie thread.
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As this comment thread saw a lot of argentium awarded, how many people are in r/ArgentiumClub now? And how many people does r/PlatiniumUserClub have?
No change for r/ArgentiumClub. You have to request an invite usually or wait for one to be sent. It took me a few weeks. The sub is still new and not really thriving yet.
And r/PlatinumUserClub has 25.9k users. That sub is well established. When you receive Platinum, you get an invite to that club within minutes.
Do they have a how you got here thread?
With this discussion qualifying a few users to r/ArgentiumClub. Currently imagine a user solving world hunger or some quality post and a user from this thread talking shit about the award.
Like I said, r/ArgentiumClub is pretty inactive. It's mostly posts saying "I'm so excited to be here." from New members and then nothing.
Not many make posts about what got them into the subs. You might see the occasional comment describing it though.
Umm I've got argentinium but the argentinium subreddit is private
Yeah, you have to be approved. Message the mods from that page that tells you the sub is private. It took a few weeks for me, but they are trying to be more proactive about sending invites.
What’s the best way to get a Platinum or Argentium award to get into these clubs?
Wow. I'm in r/PlatinumUserClub. I don't even remember getting platinum.
You know the purpose of argentium award is, don't you?
Or rather why Reddit created the award.
It's basic marketing. Create a faux luxury award so platinum and such don't seems too expensive anymore and more people buys/paid for it.
Besides they can always have the admins give them out here and there to create the impression that people actually use it.
Only rich people give argentium
I swear, I have seen more argentium awards in this thread than I have anywhere else. It's crazy. Who's giving them out?
Most likely an admin. It’s normalizing the practice.
I just hope it's a reddit employee giving these away for free, the alternative would be depressing.
Someone give me coins too
You don't understand. You need to criticize the award to get it.
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I don’t understand why people are spending money that much for internet points.. Or maybe it’s an opinion only of those who are broke af.
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I wonder how much of the spend is actually user purchased based vs how much is admins giving it out to encourage more spend. My understanding is admins don’t pay for them.
Going further with this, I wonder if admins have a certain quota of awards they need to give out, kind of like cops with tickets (in many states this is actually illegal but they could be rolled under the “productivity goals”).
My understanding is admins don’t pay for them.
well obviously, it is free for them, and something tells me it does work as award seeding, i.e. "herd instinct" plays much bigger role than some sort of "well I was going to give them an award, but someone already did so I won't"
What is argentium and what does it provide? It is like gold but with longer benefits?
gives 2500 reddit coins as well
What do the reddit coins do?
I only seem to ever see people on here complaining about giving awards, especially argentium, and making fun of "the idiots who spend money on that crap", but I'm honestly glad people do. It's an easy way for reddit to make the revenue that pays their employees, maintains servers and keeps the site and apps stable so we can continue enjoying it. I'm much happier seeing awards that signify that a user somewhere enjoyed content rather than seeing more crappy ads.
Who the HECK pays any amount of money, let alone $40, for reddit emojis. If you have that amount of money to waste, give it to someone or to a charity. It's not as if reddit can't pay for its servers either. When you go to a sub's gilded page, you can see how much server time it has helped pay. /r/askreddit alone has paid for more than 150 years iirc.