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minus-square@ReallyActuallyFrankensteinlinkEnglish110•edit-21 year agoCertainly incentivising users to create the most attention-grabby content for money won’t possibly lead to a lowest-common-denominator-fueled breakdown of what historically made the platform useful. Nahhh. No way.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-17•1 year agoIt does make me want to jump back in to do it though. I don’t care if I become the next hated internet moron, they make bank
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish21•1 year agoYeah I wouldn’t count on Reddit to run this in a competent way that will actually make anyone a decent amount of money.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•1 year agoThe reason the stick is so long is so you can’t actually get to the carrot. You just need to think you can.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•1 year agoImagine thinking you’re going to muscle in on the turf of people like Gallowboob. You won’t be making shit, brother, not without an insane amount of luck.
Certainly incentivising users to create the most attention-grabby content for money won’t possibly lead to a lowest-common-denominator-fueled breakdown of what historically made the platform useful. Nahhh. No way.
It does make me want to jump back in to do it though. I don’t care if I become the next hated internet moron, they make bank
Yeah I wouldn’t count on Reddit to run this in a competent way that will actually make anyone a decent amount of money.
The reason the stick is so long is so you can’t actually get to the carrot. You just need to think you can.
Imagine thinking you’re going to muscle in on the turf of people like Gallowboob.
You won’t be making shit, brother, not without an insane amount of luck.