Reddit to begin paying people for popular posts
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The social media site will split revenue with contributors who are awarded "gold" by other users.

The social media site will split revenue with contributors who are awarded “gold” by other users.

  • ShepyEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    Doesn’t reek of deperation to hang onto people at all, honest.

    Fuck /u/spez

    • Gargleblaster@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      I had an account with almost a million karma. Like 970,000.

      I received two platinum boosts, and I’m not sure how many times I was gilded. Maybe 30 or 40 times?

      Half of $5=$2.50 x 40=$100

      Considering the time it took to do, it ain’t shit.

  • novamdomum@kbin.social
    11·
    1 year ago

    The kind of people who stick around because you pay them aren’t the people you want to stick around.
    Coincidentally I notice that Conagra Brands, Inc. (CAG) is trading down at the moment (28.01-0.28) so if you’d like to buy some shares in one of the biggest producers of popcorn in the world now’s a good time lol

      • wahming@monyet.ccEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        They also had this ridiculous policy of not allowing you to browse their site without an account. I wonder if it actually led to signups. In my case I just got frustrated and blocked the site from search results.

    • MonsterHighStan@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      And the content that makes up top posts isn’t what you want to make top posts…

      X now rewards Premium subscribers with an ad revenue share tied to the number of impressions, or views, of ads a user generates in their tweet replies," he said.

      "This incentives X users to post content that sparks the most replies, and the characteristics of content that typically generates the most replies is content that is divisive, polarising, provocative, and controversial… exactly the sort of content that brands do not want to have their ads placed amongst.

  • Computerchairgeneral@kbin.social
    10·
    1 year ago

    I’m sure this will lead to a flood of quality content on Reddit. More seriously paying people to make content for your social media site while you sell information about them to advertisers is an interesting business model, to say the least.