Reddit could be working on a Contributor program, letting top contributors earn real-world money from the gold and karma they receive.
“Site I only still care about to laugh at thinks I am going to give it my tax information.” I’ll have to think real hard about that one.
Investors should themselves have a good think about how the CEO that self-reported making zero profit in over a decade as one of the most popular social media sites — a site whose ad revenue has stuttered in the face of what is officially a month long protest — can afford to be handing out money to shitposting bot farms now.
Won’t this just cause a ton of spam and meaningless discussions?
Pretty sure that’s exactly what they want. Those are way more neutral/marketable qualities to advertisers than “Sometimes your ad will be shown next to a 10-page, expletive-ridden tirade about poop-knives, and no, they won’t explain what it is”.
Why do I suspect that, even if one were to spend 8 hours a day on Reddit, making comments that all were gilded, you’d still earn less than minimum wage?
Zero chance this would pay better than even something like Mturk.
And yet, content quality on Reddit will tank even further because people will shitpost for pennies.
because bots will shitpost for pennies
The site will literally be run over with chatgpt bots farming for pennies overnight.
