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Spez says $19.99 fee "enhances community dialogue through monetary validation"

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 52 minutes ago

I swallowed the onion whole.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 45 minutes ago

Et Al, why are you always posting rage bait that barely even qualifies as satire?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Well, I ate the title. It seems perfectly reasonable to me.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I legit cannot tell if this is real or not… it sounds terrible but also something that Reddit would do and think is great.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

I could have sworn that reddit did in fact announce a similar system a few weeks ago. Or did I eat an onion?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

They announced earlier this month that they're considering paid subreddits. No idea where that's at.

But yeah, this satire only works precisely because they've specifically expressed their interest in further opportunities for paid subscriptions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Yes it was satire.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

I think this article has been posted here before

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Don't give them more ideas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The present moderation is not too far from this. A lot of the subreddits are just shells of what they used to be. Most posts are purged by some reddit algorithm moderation bot. You can check this yourself with r/usenet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

You can check this yourself with r/usenet.

and give them traffic? no thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I ate the onion too. This is 100% something Reddit would do - give it a year and there's a solid chance you and I will be puking that onion back up as this becomes reality.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

You're not supposed to eat the onion bro

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Lmao, damn, I forgot to check what community this was. I definitely believe that they would do such a shitty thing, though.

Satire is truly dead

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

It is 100% believable.