• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
      62·
      11 months ago

      “Supports the creators” makes me think they have a revenue split and they got rid of the old system to prevent people from not knowing the difference

      • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world
        391·
        11 months ago

        Yeah this also conveniently happens after they made everyone’s Reddit Gold invalid. Pretty damn shady if you ask me.

        • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
          18·
          11 months ago

          Need influencers if they are going to IPO

          Don’t want to lose money by having to split something people bought a year ago

      • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
        6·
        11 months ago

        “supports the creators?” like the person who created the comment gets paid? probably not. I’ve made zillions of witty upvoted comments and I haven’t earned a dime. Where does that money go? Into spez’s pockets.

        • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          Supposedly you can cash these golds out if you get 10 of them, at a rate of $1 per gold, as long as you live in the US. I figure that the left-most gild is equivalent to 1 gold, so Reddit is keeping roughly 70% of the money you pay through this system.

    • conc@lemmy.ml
      5·
      11 months ago

      Yes, but do you see the last one!? It is colorful on the outside and golden on the INSIDE

      • mommykink@lemmy.world
        65·
        11 months ago

        Giving gold supports the creators you love

        I’m not going back to Reddit to find the answer but does any of this money actually go to the creators of the post that gets gold?

        • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
          73·
          11 months ago

          If they get at least 10 gold awarded to them within 12 months, and meet the karma/yr threshold, and stay in “good standing” , and aren’t nsfw, and any number of the other thresholds Reddit could use to say no, then they might get ~50% of the price paid to award it. Otherwise Reddit just keeps it all.

        • cmhickman358@thelemmy.club
          451·
          11 months ago

          They don’t get money, they get exposure which is more valuable than money anyway /s in case it wasn’t obvious

        • Smokeydope@lemmy.worldEnglish
          81·
          11 months ago

          Support as in the ‘stroke the ego’ sense not ‘help financially put food on the table and heat their home’ sense

          I would really like to see lemmy add a ‘direct donation’ button to post and comments that links to their paypal or whatever. I think throwing a dollar or two directly at the person who made the comment or post you really liked is an infinitely better way to support them than throwing that money at a company so that they can award a shiny digital icon above the post.

          • Nusm@lemmy.worldEnglish
            29·
            11 months ago

            While I like the sentiment, in reality I think it would do the same thing as it’s doing on Reddit - turn Lemmy into a huge bot farm trying to get money from real users.

          • Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            11 months ago

            They do, actually. Eligible creators (basically you have to live in the US, be over 18 and have made at least 100 karma in the last 12 months) can claim 33% of the money spent on the gold.

            Please don’t just say “no” to a question without actually doing research. Disliking a platform isn’t a reason to spread misinformation about it.

        • stoy@lemmy.zip
          5·
          11 months ago

          Creators on reddit?

          Wait, that explains soo much of their terrible UI changes ocer the years!

          On old reddit, usernames, while displayed, are in reality semi hidden, it uses tiny text that blends in the rest of the text.

          This is terrible for creators, their name is their brand, and if they don’t get exposure of it on their content, they will leave.

          This is why new reddit made usernames slightly more prominent, and also started pushing avatars, they want more big creators, that they expect will bring in their audience, an audience that is trained to want to support their creator.

          This is turning reddit from a vibrant community to a generic social media site, a checkbox for what a creator is expected to have…

        • Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          11 months ago

          Theoretically, yes. Supposedly (If you live in the US) you can cash out $0.90 for every ‘gold’ you receive. In the image, the leftmost golden upvote is worth one ‘gold’, and the rightmost is worth 25. This means that one gold is bought for $2.69, so the post creator can claim 33% of that money back if they are eligible. https://www.reddit.com/contributor-program

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.world
    793·
    11 months ago

    Remember to always tip your celebrities for promoting whatever dumb projects on on your Internet forums, god knows we could use the money.

    spoiler

    THAT WAS SARCASM

    • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      11 months ago

      I feel like all of them kinda are

      Youtube and Discord conveniently added user tags for no reason literally the moment Twitter went down the already pretty deep hole.

      Twitch’s favorite pastime is making bank on “unrelated” content

      Facebook is just Facebook

      Reddit has been constantly losing its appeal every year ever since they moved off the old layout.

      Everyone adding/changing things in some meager attempt to drive profits and value without considering effects of user loss because social media is such an oligopoly it doesn’t matter.

      • Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world
        10·
        11 months ago

        Hiroshima has completely given up on ever making 4chan profitable, so it’s still full of porn and casual racism.

        • fosstulate@iusearchlinux.fyi
          7·
          11 months ago

          Hiroshima has completely given up on ever making 4chan profitable, so it’s still full of unfiltered organic discussion, porn. funny shitposting and couple of unobtrusive banner ads.

          As low-brow as it can get, 4chan is still part of the solution, unlike plebbit.

  • DarkGamer@kbin.social
    451·
    11 months ago

    They’re paying the user this money or this is just for a fancy little icon next to the post like reddit gold used to be?

    • 0xD@infosec.pub
      375·
      11 months ago

      Not sure why the others are lying - disliking a platform is not a reason for spreading misinformation.

      https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/17331620007572-What-is-the-Contributor-Program-and-how-can-I-participate-

      They are paying eligible users based on karma and gold.

      Of course, the program is more of a “see, we have something” than a proper revenue share because of the “get at least 10 gold” criterium and all the other hoops you have to jump through.

      • DarkGamer@kbin.social
        331·
        11 months ago

        Thank you for the correct answer! I would have gone on believing a lie had you not responded. Here’s their payout table:

        Contributor Tier Karma (Over 12 mo period) Payout Rate (Dollars per Gold) Minimum Gold for payout
        Non-contributor 0-99 Karma No payout; balance rolls over n/a
        Contributor 100-4999 Karma $0.90 per 1 Gold 10
        Top contributor 5000+ Karma $1.00 per 1 Gold 10

        So they charge $2.69-$66.99 for gilding and only give the contributor $0.90-$1, keeping the rest. Wow, sounds like a shit deal for everyone but Reddit.

        • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
          11·
          11 months ago

          So basically this will give a very small handful of gallowboob-scale karma whores maybe a thousand dollars a year.

          • DarkGamer@kbin.social
            51·
            11 months ago

            Assuming users are willing to pay for comments. I’d expect far fewer awards to be handed out now that they cost dollars.

        • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          I think the higher amounts in OP’s pic are multiples of “gold” (with $66.99 being 25 gold) and assume the payout would change per gold for what seems like a different currency than what that table is for (where 1 gold is $1.99 USD).

          All that said, Reddit hasn’t really given any reason to give them the benefit of the doubt here, either, so it could very well be $1 per award no matter the amount paid for it.

          • Clinic@lemmy.world
            2·
            11 months ago

            with $66.99 being 25 gold

            so they keep 60+%. I am not sure why people willing to support someone won’t do it directly vs giving a high percentage to a middle man.

        • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
          5·
          11 months ago

          $0.90 per gold ?

          I mean shouldn’t that gave been:

          $0.90 ger dollar given by golds?

          Anyway, it smells like the large majority will work and get nothing, some “pro” accounts will maybe.

          Reddit was mainly driven by lots of small ‘content-creators’ (I hate that word so much) like ordinary people sharing and helping.

          Cheers to you all making posts and comments here (and well anywhere actually, because IMO it benefits humanity mostly).

        • Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          11 months ago

          You get $0.90 per gold - the fancier golden upvotes are worth multiple gold, with the most expensive one being worth 25 gold. So the post creator can claim 33% back

        • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
          191·
          11 months ago

          After 10 years, approaching a million comment karma, and many sourced write-ups and copy pastas I got a fair amount. Probably 200 of a mixture of gold and the occasional platinum. This was concentrated in later years as I better understood reddit, and understood specific audiences more. I strove to give genuinely good information, too.

          Unfortunately reddit’s admins are lazy, suck, and some subs’ moderators even worse (looking at r/news) and they screwed me. Their loss. I’ll find another platform to publish content, like here of course and elsewhere.

          • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
            6·
            11 months ago

            Right, so in a good year, you’d have gotten some beer money from it. And in return, you’d have to give reddit your real name and credit card information.

            This is honestly even more pathetic than I ever imagined it could have been. Reddit is trying to emulate the “influencer” model from other social media, but doesn’t want to actually pony up cash to do it. YouTube has bought Mr Beast like six(?) houses at this point. Reddit won’t even buy your friends a round at the local pub.

            • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
              41·
              11 months ago

              Right. Unless you’re a complete power-user whose entire life revolves around reddit, even the it’s a massive risk akin to saying, “I’m going to go start a successful YouTube channel!” (which would still be a better venture).

        • Final Remix@lemmy.world
          15·
          11 months ago

          I usually get “gold” by complaining about how admins / employees can give it out for free to drum up interest.

          • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
            3·
            11 months ago

            My biggest gold events were saying “don’t buy gold” during Paomageddon. To think, I would have almost gotten enough money to cover the Uber ride to the bank!

        • Pechente@feddit.deEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          Did you follow niche subs? I noticed when I was more active in default subs, I got gold more often. As the default subs got less bearable and I shifted towards smaller communities, I barely got gold anymore.

          Or maybe the quality of my posts just became shit.

          • MataVatnik@lemmy.world
            3·
            11 months ago

            Depends if I was just looking to karma whore or just shitpost for fun. When I was trying I could easily rack up karma. But even so it’s a lot of work.

      • kase@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months ago

        I’m like 60% sure it’ll turn into a porn site after this. But maybe that’s what they’re going for?

  • The Barto@sh.itjust.works
    44·
    11 months ago

    When I used to have gold to gild, I would always give it to the stupidest comment, like the most childish shit ever, if you had a poop joke or something, I’d give you gold, most of the time people would join in and gild the dumb comment.

  • donio@lemmy.world
    321·
    11 months ago

    Imagine the person (or more likely a whole group) who has spent weeks designing and iterating over those arrows.

    • Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee
      23·
      11 months ago

      It’s what the old gold used to be. They rebranded it and added a tiny incentive for content creators (like a dollar per gold, regardless of the level of gold, once you reach a certain karma level)

      Really it’s just shittier reddit gold and another way reddit is trying to make money off of colorful arrows

  • Nusm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    11 months ago

    This is off topic, but why isn’t there an animated gif of Bugs Bunny saying the “NO”? I mean, we have animated gifs for almost everything else, but I only see this as a static pic. Can no one find the cartoon that this is from and create a gif from it?

      • Nusm@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        11 months ago

        Okay, that makes sense. Maybe it’s the Mandela Effect, but I swear I remember a cartoon where Bugs says “No” similar to how he’s shown in the still. Maybe not (?).

        • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
          4·
          11 months ago

          I’m pretty sure Bugs says no like we’re imagining a few times, but never with a nice crisp close up like this.

      • Nusm@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        Wow, I had no idea this is what it’s from! It took a few minutes for me to get the exact frame, but when I did, it was obvious. Thanks!

        • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
          4·
          11 months ago

          At about 0:30, just before Bugs brings the bottle to his lips. It’s rotated from the original head-back position, which is why the video is rotated.