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My only thought about this is that I wish people would stop using awards on comments lol. You're giving the site money! Feel like I gotta spray users with a water bottle like no, no, stop that
I mean, I have a stockpile of 8000 "free" coins to get rid of before I nuke my account. Might as well go towards depriving reddit of ad revenue.
Could be that people already have these awards and since they might want to leave reddit, they just give those awards to random comments from the CEO. Probably unlikely, but who knows?
I do know that part of it is that giving awards helps surface comments getting heavily downvoted in the algo, but no amount of awards is going to help you see spez - the downvote avalanche is gonna be nonstop lol
Using up free coins doesn't give them any more money though, right? I just checked and I apparently have 550 coins to "spend".
It doesn't but it gives the illusion that people are spending money on these things, and gives credibility to marketing teams raining awards on comments that they want to promote.
When more than gold first came out the primary response to awards was disgust and disdain, giving out a butt load of free coins normalizes the awards and makes them more palatable.
Don't mind me, I'm just using up my stockpile of randomly earned coins. I won't be paying Reddit anything.
I hope spez isn't a cat. Mine flees when she sees me pick up the water bottle and is back up to no good as soon as I turn around.
like spez, cats are little assholes, but unlike spez, we still love them