I mostly don’t understand why they made so many different awards. I thought Gold was a cool way of a user supporting Reddit while also showing their gratitude toward another user. After all, users cared about karma even though it didn’t really do anything so an award was just an extra “tip” of appreciation.
It definitely lost its luster to me though once they changed it to awards and it became messy.
they tried ripping off Discord and its reactions, but paid. I remember someone has shown a screenshot of a survey for beta testers that showed a Discord post with a few reactions below it, asking if you’d find such system appealing.
For me the current awards system was the number one reason to switch to a 3rd party app. I despise the fact that people paid money for this stuff and i hated the visual clutter.
Reddit was originally about the content, with the users being an afterthought. Thats why there weren’t bios and avatars and all the other crap common amongst web2.0 social sites of the time.
Gold started out as a little donation thing, with a few minor perks, like no ads, longer pages, seen comment remembering, and so forth. Nothing groundbreaking, just more of a “thanks for helping” thing.
Sometime in the 10s, after the OG reddit admins left, and reddit became “independent” of condé, they started chasing user engagement. Profiles, avatars, bios, userpage posts, and, of course, all the award spam. All of it antithetical to what reddit was initially about.
IMO the original vision of reddit was great. I keep avatars turned off on my lemmy user, because I don’t really care to see em.
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