You guys act like an infinitesimally small blip of traffic coming from a relatively niche community will be enough to make reddit successful again. People on /r/place drawing "fuck spez" using 1d old accounts and adblockers are nothing. Ruining this year's /r/place in exchange for a blip of mostly useless traffic is a W imo.
Ruining this year’s /r/place
Easy there, Robespierre. You won't "ruin" r/place by creating some tiny logo that will be scrubbed away by the moderators in five minutes.
Idk if you've actually seen what /r/place looks like right now but it's way more than just a single tiny logo lol. The majority of it is about spez.
That's the same thinking that leads to "what's my one vote going to do?"
Traffic benefits them in two main ways: directly via ad loads (plus coins and rewards while those were a thing), and indirectly via content added by that traffic. If you block ads and aren't adding content, your traffic just costs them money in compute resources and bandwidth.
Clicks themselves don't generate revenue. Thinking that they are directly translatable to revenue might be why Reddit is in this mess better they saw lots of clicks and wanted to turn them into money but it's not that simple and they fucked up their attempt (well, maybe, time will tell the long term effects of this).
You guys act like an infinitesimally small blip of traffic coming from a relatively niche community will be enough to make reddit successful again. People on /r/place drawing "fuck spez" using 1d old accounts and adblockers are nothing. Ruining this year's /r/place in exchange for a blip of mostly useless traffic is a W imo.
Easy there, Robespierre. You won't "ruin" r/place by creating some tiny logo that will be scrubbed away by the moderators in five minutes.
Idk if you've actually seen what /r/place looks like right now but it's way more than just a single tiny logo lol. The majority of it is about spez.
That's the same thinking that leads to "what's my one vote going to do?"
Traffic benefits them in two main ways: directly via ad loads (plus coins and rewards while those were a thing), and indirectly via content added by that traffic. If you block ads and aren't adding content, your traffic just costs them money in compute resources and bandwidth.
Clicks themselves don't generate revenue. Thinking that they are directly translatable to revenue might be why Reddit is in this mess better they saw lots of clicks and wanted to turn them into money but it's not that simple and they fucked up their attempt (well, maybe, time will tell the long term effects of this).