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Reddit’s new Contributor Program will let you cash out gold given to your posts by other users in real money. (www.theverge.com)
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[–] geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So a user issue 2.50 to buy a gold, then the receiver can cash out 1.00. So Reddit aims to make 1.50 for every gold awarded

Absolute scam

[–] Syndic@feddit.de 23 points 1 year ago

Well to be fair, before this they got all of the money for a tiny picture. So in that light they scam a bit less now.

But of course this still is a stupid idea which will decrease whatever remaining quality Reddit has even more.

[–] serratur@lemmy.wtf 8 points 1 year ago

Time to set up that AI chatbot for passive income

[–] wishthane@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

They just saw that video on Roblox and said "yeah that sounds great, let's do that"