The website has been knocking it out of the park for popular decisions lately /s

The website has been knocking it out of the park for popular decisions lately /s

We all know this is happening with Reddit gold, however I thought it would be relevant to point out that there has been fallout amongst Reddit Premium subscribers.

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    • Madison_rogue@kbin.socialOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Put anything to a vote
      Run weighted polls to make big decisions in your community, like getting input on rules changes or deciding how to distribute Points.

      Unlike regular polls, these polls give a larger voice to people who have contributed more to the community. The more Community Points someone has earned, the more weight their vote carries.

      This will end well…

      EDIT

      What they’re really looking for are a bunch of whales to drive engagement.

      • ode@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Call me a cynic but I suspect the biggest ‘contributor’ to r/product will end up being product’s marketing department account, likewise with r/country and party-political apparatchiks. The move is elegant in a way: Reddit Inc can ruin true democratic operation of subs by turning subscribers into shareholders (which wards off repeats of mod activism) and simultaneously provide further cover to astroturfers (lots of points = Time and Effort™ = good faith actor).

        • Madison_rogue@kbin.socialOP
          2·
          1 year ago

          Oh, absolutely this is the case. Reddit could even run bot accounts to gain a lion’s share of points for any particular sub they want to control, thereby stifling any sort of protest or activism authorized by sub vote.

    • FaceDeer@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Ironically you’d need something like a cryptocurrency if you wanted to implement something like that for the Fediverse.

        • FaceDeer@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          Generally speaking the solution to these sorts of things when one doesn’t want it is “then don’t use it.” That’s especially true in a federated, decentralized system like this.

          • esty@lemmy.ca
            1·
            1 year ago

            yeah but this is the specific kind of engagement bait and whatnot that can stay on the corpo social nets

      • Boz (he/him)@lemmy.one
        0·
        1 year ago

        Why? I mean, technologically, why couldn’t a more standard payment platform work, and then just pass around those payments among instances? PayPal is not crypto, but you can use it almost anywhere online.

        • FaceDeer@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          PayPal is not decentralized. None of the “more standard” payment platforms are. If you want to have some kind of cross-instance limitation on things like awards and not have instances be able to just spew them out willy-nilly if they want to then you’re going to need some kind of decentralized ledger to track them authoritatively, and that’s basically cryptocurrency in a nutshell. This is what cryptocurrency is for.

    • soundasleep@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      Yeah it’s been enabled on the crypto reddits for a while… as a result the subs overwhelmingly changed to “vaguely interesting and/or attention-grabbing but ultimately useless with a race to see who’s first” posts, signal-to-noise ratio got way worse.