• @[email protected]
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    2282 years ago

    Just fyi to prevent misinformation, reddit disabled buying coins when they announced it was being removed. So all these points are leftovers

    • @[email protected]
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      412 years ago

      Also due to this people are even more willing to give out awards, since reddit announced that all coins will be removed from your account after September.

  • SSUPII
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    1292 years ago

    Lots of them are likely leftover points due to the deprecation of awards.

    • Guildo
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      572 years ago

      I never understood why people spend money on reddit. It’s fucking stupid.

      • Bappity
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        372 years ago

        on top of that, Reddit rewards are disappearing soon so they are literally throwing money into a fire

        • Guildo
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          232 years ago

          It was always that kind - I also don’t get why people are spending money on e.g. bits at twitch. It’s the same kind of stupid. Just give the people you like money with paypal. It’s easier and they get nearly 100% of it.

          • SSUPII
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            With “Friends and Family” they get 100% unless converted

            • Guildo
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              it’s a bit complicated, if you have to spend tax on it - but, yes

              • SSUPII
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                22 years ago

                In my country Paypay doesn’t tax when doing Friends and Family transactions, but do when you are sending to an account from another country

                • Guildo
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                  32 years ago

                  In germany it demands on the conditions. If you get too much, they will ask why and where you got it. So, if you get small amounts it’s totally ok, if it gets more you will get problems.

                • @Shialac
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                  PayPal doesn’t do the tax, but for the content creator its taxable income

          • @[email protected]
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            52 years ago

            Used to ask this question alot. But then I realized, its to be part of a community of sorts, either in a random twitch streamer’s chat or on reddit. I kinda get it now, and I while I wish people would put this money towards either smaller creators or more charitable causes I do also respect peoples right to spend however they want.

            • Guildo
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              32 years ago

              You have the right to do stupid things, nobody is denying it.

              • @[email protected]
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                32 years ago

                While I personally think its silly, if the people get that sense of community from doing I wouldn’t outright call it stupid.

            • Guildo
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              22 years ago

              In germany it demands on the conditions. If you get too much, they will ask why and where you got it. So, if you get small amounts it’s totally ok, if it gets more you will get problems.

      • SeaJ
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        222 years ago

        They used to give out awards to gift daily to encourage people to use the official app. You could also give out gold if you got several gold. I never spent any money but did give out awards.

      • LazaroFilm
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        142 years ago

        I spent money on Apollo Ultra, but not on Reddit.

    • Niello
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      Why is it being deprecated? I thought it’s a major income for them.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 years ago

      Awarded - apparently I have gold points there for some reason, and an IM saying they’re about to be removed.

      • SSUPII
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        72 years ago

        If you ever receive gold or higher you get some coins + premium membership for some days. I don’t know if it is still applies.

    • @[email protected]
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      The issue is, most of the people left on reddit are damn near addicts. Or those who weren’t directly affected by the api and therefor don’t care and just jump on the fuck spez cause hating ceos is cool*.

      (CEOs should be hated on don’t get me wrong, but for actual reasons and be held to that hate, not just hating for a trend)

      • @ryry1985
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        I saw some comments on a Reddit thread about the place picture saying things like, “Who’s spez?” Or “what did this spez person do?” It’s almost like they weren’t even on Reddit around the time of the protests to have a clue what people are upset about. There must be some percentage of Reddit that is just completely unaware.

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          There definetly is a percentage who doesn’t know about the reddit situation. I would guess a large one.

  • Altima NEO
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    532 years ago

    And they misspelled CEO. Fucking achievement right there.

    • @Trofont
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      172 years ago

      NGL I tried to figure out what joke you were making for several minutes. Then I finally looked at the second “CEO” my brain skimmed past it like 5 times

    • @rockSlayer
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      262 years ago

      Believe it or not, this used to actually work for SEO manipulation before Google got wise

      • @[email protected]
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        62 years ago

        I remember the good old days when reddit managed to make a swastika one of the top google image results for EA Games or something, maybe Comcast.

  • @GenBlob
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    52 years ago

    I supported sending a message on r/place but this is embarrassing

  • @dhruv
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    32 years ago

    I tried to upvote the image. Old habits die hard?