The new system to replace Reddit coins and awards is here. You got out at the right time.
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Read all about it at the above link. There's way too much to process here. This is going to be wild.
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Read all about it at the above link. There's way too much to process here. This is going to be wild.
Apparently, this has been around for ages:
May 28 2020: https://consensys.net/blog/news/everything-you-need-to-know-about-reddits-new-blockchain-based-community-points/
May 15 2020: https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/gk0x6g/could_the_admins_please_explain_this_community/
IA History: https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://www.reddit.com/community-points
Discussions of proliferating it and fantasies about the resulting weird exploitation it will enable have occurred as well:
March 17 2023: https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/11tv5vz/when_community_points_are_introduced_to_other/
July 16 2023: https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/151fg8h/which_subreddits_need_to_be_the_next_to_get/
Apparently, they also tried to do this before, almost 9 years ago:
https://www.engadget.com/2014-12-19-reddit-notes.html
https://techcrunch.com/2014/12/19/reddit-announces-redditnotes-a-way-to-share-equity-with-readers/
https://www.theverge.com/2014/12/20/7427491/reddit-notes-announced-give-5-million-dollars-to-users
https://slate.com/business/2014/12/what-reddit-notes-are-their-history-and-future.html
https://old.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2pt25f/announcing_reddit_notes/
https://old.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/5fyaec/what_happened_to_reddit_notes/
https://www.fortune.com/2015/01/30/reddit-notes-is-not-going-to-happen/
Kinda puts things in a new light. Ruining the site has always been the plan.
ah, this explains why there's almost zero hubbub about it on reddit right now.