Reddit will start paying you real money for your karma::Reddit announced a contributor program on Monday, which awards users actual, real money for their fake internet points. Now, eligible users will be able
So far, the Reddit contributor program is limited to users in the United States (to start, at least) who are over the age of 18 and can verify their identity via Persona and Stripe.
Guys, here’s the real reason. So they can positively identify you. Evidently this is how much that knowledge is worth. They can probably then start selling your posted data to other companies that have also “verified” you via Persona and Stripe. Once those datasets start getting linked together, well I will let your imagination run with that.
Nah, I’m good on that.
Sadly we’re not together anymore. We tried to work it out, but I needed to move on and put that behind me.
Article title is misleading vs the text.
Everything I read suggests that Reddit will pay you out for Reddit Gold your account earned, not karma.
Super unpopular opinion but, I do think there will have to be some middle ground. All of us in Lemmy can see the issues with something beautiful and free thing like this. It exists only thanks to highly skilled people putting in ridiculous hours and the donations of a few folks but shuts down, has trouble scaling up etc.
If we want Lemmy to get big enough that the niche communities thrive, we’ll probably need to figure out a way to pay the devs, probably moderators and if we want truly engaging content, the posters.
I don’t know what that looks like but the flip side of the “there are only low effort memes and few good in depth discussions” is that we gwt what we pay for. If we don’t want ads, some form of direct albeit minimal payment seems like an eventual solution.
They should have just given the money to good moderators that clean up their shitty platform
but don’t worry they’ll still ban you for complete bullshit reasons
for real…my last account, i got banned from r/antiwork for saying eat the rich in relevant context. i appealed the ban, appeal denied. i PM’ed the mod and called him a hypocrite, account banned from reddit for mod harassment. appealed that, was told that was indeed harassment. they killed the API a few months later so I never got around to making another one
Oh no. What will happen if I run a bot farm of 10,000 accounts that upvote my sock puppet account?
You might just cover a portion of your infra costs
Could be making serious hay paraphrasing quotes from “The Meditations” and making witty remarks and saying absolutely nothing of value
Please don’t leave
Can I just cash out my karma? I need money lol
