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Just as with reddit's awards it would just be clutter

Maybe i would approve of just one special award award that you can grant once per day to a post or comment. But not tens of different icons atop of every post that would be awful.

just one special award award that you can grant once per day

Sounds good at first, but sooner or later it would result in users using alts to highlight their own comments. Even if it was granted only once a month or less.

Sure, bumping your comments is already possible with alts, but it's not so effective and distracting like an award would be.

With Reddit Gold, you at least had to decide if you really wanted to spend your real money on it.

I like the concept of users saying "hey that comment helped/entertainment me a lot and really deserves a special spotlight", but it shouldn't be too easy to abuse.

Maybe Lemmy Gold Spotlight should be available to give away once you've made a donation. Maybe there would be other problems with that.

I think it should be generated by participation that is upvoted. If you contribute enough quality stuff, you get one gold to give out. And yeah it should just be gold, and multiple golds would have just one icon, with a number;

With Reddit Gold, you at least had to decide if you really wanted to spend your real money on it.

Not entirely true, as Reddit used to have a daily free award, which was actually quite fun to grant to a helpful or funny comment.

Also these awards shouldn't affect the comment's order in sorting in any way, just like (I think) it didn't do that on Reddit either. Sure you could make your comment look like it was liked a lot by someone by using an alt, but in the end it's still only upvotes that really matter.

Could it be limited to only show the top 3 emoji reactions on the UI (like on LinkedIn), or simply show the number of reactions, and require an extra click to view them all?

I feel like that's still unnecessary clutter. Are upvotes not sufficient?