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warrenm
Wait - there are people who actually paid for Reddit gold?!
brodouevencode
Imagine owning a non-tangible asset that you cannot feel or touch.

But then again I live in the US with a fiat currency, so there's that.

(this comment was meant to be highly provocative)

warrenm
so ... you'd say fiat currency is a real-world version of NFTs?
Shawnj2
People used to do it as a way to support server costs and browse ad free when the site was far smaller, or a way to award people who did things you liked (I received gold once for telling people about a good offline Reddit app I found by the author who was happy to see his app mentioned on the site and used).
warrenm
I've been on Reddit for (checks profile...) 12+ years

Only "awards" I ever received (or gave) on Reddit were in the 'freebie' category :)

Shawnj2
It still wasn’t a super common thing so I’m not surprised. What about mold?
QuarterRoy
Users aren’t that furious or they’d go somewhere else.

Reddit users see no irony in complaining about Reddit changes and policy on Reddit.

Reddit leadership won the API fight by threatening to remove mods. Then they brought back /r/place to distract users from all the changes.

Until users start leaving the platform Reddit will continue on its path of forcing everyone to use their app and looking at a near term IPO.

mr_00ff00
Bit harsh but I brought it up before. When the blackout started, Reddit users created a place to share blackout news and organize. It was a subreddit.

I have to imagine the CEO laughed when he saw that.

warrenm
semi-related - I left every group that thought joining the blackout was somehow intelligent

whether or not I agreed with said blackout (which as easily (probably more so) could have been done as a "day without Reddit", or like how some Facebook groups will close for new comments/posts periodically to take a break), such acts on the part of mods demonstrated they hadn't considered anyone but themselves when they did it

ziml77
Most of them just don't care. I saw a large thread on the WoW forums about how Reddit was going to be force un-privating subreddits and removing moderators. Almost all the comments in there were praising Reddit for that saying that the power tripping mods needed to go. The API changes were part of the discussion, but purely framed as something that affected moderator tools.
Shawnj2
I don’t think they brought r/place back to distract users but to gain new ones from communities participating in place.