You know what I don't miss? Awards.
Reddit Migration@kbin.social – 151 points – Firstly, they de-valued upvotes and the equality that every user's opinion had before they were introduced.
And secondly, they were so abundant that they didn't mean anything anyway.
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I have to say, I like discord's reactions quite a bit. But I hated reddit's awards with a violent passion. I'm not sure what the difference is, or if there would be a way to have a reaction-like feature in a public forum. Like, maybe a couple more options than just upvote & downvote (and maybe settable by the mods?) idk.
But anyway, yeah, I agree. I hated the awards, a lot.
discords global reactions is actually a smart way to monetise: a vanity feature that many frequent users may want and drives subs but doesnt ruin the platform
meanwhile reddits pointless award spam is just so atrocious and tacky I used script to hide them lol
Do you think you'd hate them less if they were all free like the reactions on discord (and so wouldn't set aside payers from free users)? I lowkey think it was Reddit trying to make me feel jealous of the people paying that made me hate them.
yes, but also no, they were all sparkly and obnoxious and I didn't know what a single one of them meant. There's a standard set of emoji for a reason lol (even if it's been augmented by a bajillion custom emoji that 50% of popular servers implement at least 10-25% of).
Has any discord server implemented any emoji for a single discord award? Genuine question cos like I said I don't recognize a single one so I wouldn't know if I came across one.