How is this not going to increase the amount of bots, endless re-posts and in general FUD they get inundated with?
On the surface it sounds great and all, but to me it seems like it will accelerate the site being the shithole that it was headed to. Introducing money into anything like this typically brings out the worse in people.
Why do they care if it does? Creators get paid on a per-gold basis, which means people are paying reddit in the first place for gold. Whether bought gold is spent on bots or human users is probably entirely immaterial to the Admins. Reddit sees engagement and (ideally) spending go up.
Reddit could crack down on bots if they want to. It’s almost entirely a separate issue. Adding money likely isn’t going to change much since obviously bot farms already have a profit motive to spam reddit and the payouts aren’t huge.
How is this not going to increase the amount of bots, endless re-posts and in general FUD they get inundated with?
On the surface it sounds great and all, but to me it seems like it will accelerate the site being the shithole that it was headed to. Introducing money into anything like this typically brings out the worse in people.
Why do they care if it does? Creators get paid on a per-gold basis, which means people are paying reddit in the first place for gold. Whether bought gold is spent on bots or human users is probably entirely immaterial to the Admins. Reddit sees engagement and (ideally) spending go up.
Reddit could crack down on bots if they want to. It’s almost entirely a separate issue. Adding money likely isn’t going to change much since obviously bot farms already have a profit motive to spam reddit and the payouts aren’t huge.