They are legit back, but it seems only certain posts are eligible for awards? I don't know the specifics, but I found a post where it had an award icon that showed the revamped old awards.
Edit: Omg I got awards! Thanks, even though I still don't know what they mean even after reading the post, the commenter below linked. (Seems like a cash grab sadly)🤩😂
You can read about it on [the announcement post](https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/1css0ws/we_heard_you_awards_are_back/) here.
It's ... not being received well tbh
tl;dr. Reddit realized that awards gave them money and wanted to up charge the new reward system while wiping the old system out and the money to go with it.
There is no emoji thing left of the vote count. That's just the tag icon, which might be a RES feature idk exactly.Unless it's the 2 emoji things at the end of the message
Ah, yeah no such thing on my end. To be fair, I prefer it to not be real, but I hope that doesn't impact you too much. Thanks for communicating what you see.
I have to say, the old Awards clearly made Reddit way more money.
To explain: Most folks who wanted Reddit gold to buy awards would spend, likely, $14 bucks to get a big "pile of gold" or whatever, and they'd run sales to push folks to like... $20 for even more gold per-dollar.
The "new" system? $2 bucks for a golden updoot.
In all my scrolling, per 100 stories I probably saw one or two upvotes which were gilded.
And that was it: only the $2 updoot. No one, no matter how popular the post was, had anything higher than the base "Gold" updoot.
To say the program was a disaster is an understatement. Unmitigated disaster is a better term. The amount of cash they lost from killing the old paid awards program, and moving to the new one, I wouldn't be shocked to hear it was a loss of millions.
I would LOVE to see numbers for revenue of the newer updoot system... but my guess is that it was such a failure they scrapped it entirely. It didn't even last 6 months.
Yey, giving them money for useless pixels is back on the menu boys.
Reddit awards are as stupid as NFT art, so useless. Also they think they're so slick to promote them in a post like this, they're not.
So many times I've seen people say that they wished they could give someone an award for something. THATS WHAT THE UPVOTES ARE FOR! Spending actual money to give strangers awards makes no sense at all.
Was this posted by a reddit employee? Don't see how this is wholesome or a meme, or anything beyond advertising a new feature (which is still a downgrade from the original version).
I don't see the option yet. Darn.
Would be nice if they bring back the one free award weekly to give somebody.
And anyone asking why this is wholesome, because it feels good to show appreciation about a post other than liking
We did it, guys! I would like to thank everyone who sent elbow pictures to the reddit CEO, Steve Huffman. You guys are the real GOAT's. Shout out to u/Ray.
It used to be that if you really liked something on Reddit, you could give awards. They would appear by the upvote button. IIRC, there was a gold one and a silver one, and the comment would be a slightly different color for the gold award. (The gold award would also give some gold — the currency to use awards— to the commenter/poster. This gold could then be used to buy awards. You could also get gold through real currency).
Eventually there were more and more rewards added. There were some that *really* made the comment stand out (I think there was one with a fire border), but most of them were basically silver awards used as an emoji. I found this website that lists most of them at the time they were deleted: https://github.com/androiddevnotes/reddit-awards
They are legit back, but it seems only certain posts are eligible for awards? I don't know the specifics, but I found a post where it had an award icon that showed the revamped old awards. Edit: Omg I got awards! Thanks, even though I still don't know what they mean even after reading the post, the commenter below linked. (Seems like a cash grab sadly)🤩😂
You can read about it on [the announcement post](https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/1css0ws/we_heard_you_awards_are_back/) here. It's ... not being received well tbh
tl;dr. Reddit realized that awards gave them money and wanted to up charge the new reward system while wiping the old system out and the money to go with it.
I guess begging users to buy stock did not go so well
I'm almost certain wall streets shorted them like crazy
This means API's will come back... Right?
The API never went away, only some apps.
Yup, way too expensive now to be worth it.
Revanced has made Rif is fun work again for me though and that's all that's keeping me on this awful site at this point
Reddit is fun is fun
Technically the full name is Reddit is fun is fun for reddit
Did you? I don’t see anything
It's the little emoji thing to the left of the vote count.
Oh okay, it’s appeared after updating the app, now I can see it
Ok, time to update Reddit. Edit: Welp, nothing for me yet.
Yeah, I updated, the app looks smooth
There is no emoji thing left of the vote count. That's just the tag icon, which might be a RES feature idk exactly.Unless it's the 2 emoji things at the end of the message
When I select it, it shows a breakdown of awards for that particular comment. (Mainly legacy ones)
Ah, yeah no such thing on my end. To be fair, I prefer it to not be real, but I hope that doesn't impact you too much. Thanks for communicating what you see.
I'm not giving you an award for this. I see you.
Get this man award!
Okay then, that was always allowed.
I understood that reference
Wasn't that just a scam to get money?
I have to say, the old Awards clearly made Reddit way more money. To explain: Most folks who wanted Reddit gold to buy awards would spend, likely, $14 bucks to get a big "pile of gold" or whatever, and they'd run sales to push folks to like... $20 for even more gold per-dollar. The "new" system? $2 bucks for a golden updoot. In all my scrolling, per 100 stories I probably saw one or two upvotes which were gilded. And that was it: only the $2 updoot. No one, no matter how popular the post was, had anything higher than the base "Gold" updoot. To say the program was a disaster is an understatement. Unmitigated disaster is a better term. The amount of cash they lost from killing the old paid awards program, and moving to the new one, I wouldn't be shocked to hear it was a loss of millions. I would LOVE to see numbers for revenue of the newer updoot system... but my guess is that it was such a failure they scrapped it entirely. It didn't even last 6 months.
Yey, giving them money for useless pixels is back on the menu boys. Reddit awards are as stupid as NFT art, so useless. Also they think they're so slick to promote them in a post like this, they're not.
So many times I've seen people say that they wished they could give someone an award for something. THATS WHAT THE UPVOTES ARE FOR! Spending actual money to give strangers awards makes no sense at all.
I can kinda see where they're coming from. If you agree with something, you upvote it. But what if you wanted to upvote harder?
If I could, I would upvote you so hard right now. 😂
Make a positive comment about what they said.
“id give you an award if i could”
If someone is wants to throw money away at a comment or post I made, I would rather just give them my CashApp haha.
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Yeah but you can give award with steam points that you get from buying games, so its not realy an extra expense
I was referring to: spending money for colored pixels (i. e. CSGO)
Did you all forget fuck spez?
Reddit has so many bots now that awards don't make much sense anymore. It will probably make it worse
This a whole lie
And all my coins are gone
How is this wholesome?
Was this posted by a reddit employee? Don't see how this is wholesome or a meme, or anything beyond advertising a new feature (which is still a downgrade from the original version).
Oh wow. I guess I'll have to start my monthly subscription again. Hahahahaha nah
...they were gone? How long were they gone? Edit: nevermind, found the official announcement that explains everything.
I don't see the option yet. Darn. Would be nice if they bring back the one free award weekly to give somebody. And anyone asking why this is wholesome, because it feels good to show appreciation about a post other than liking
Yes. There’s liking some thing, up vote. And there’s living something up boat.
The good stuff will naturally float to the top.
We did it, guys! I would like to thank everyone who sent elbow pictures to the reddit CEO, Steve Huffman. You guys are the real GOAT's. Shout out to u/Ray.
it was a good thing to wake up to after my 4hr after school nap
I think if reddit just stopped making changes and just committed to maintaining the platform, this website would be a lot more popular
wait, the free awards? if so the world is healing
Hi I’m new to Reddit. I understand the upvote/downvote but why award? Just cause it’s super fucking cool? Please help, I am old.
This isn’t wholesome at all
They are?
wtf who cares
People who care about this website too much
What's that??? I'm new here😅
It used to be that if you really liked something on Reddit, you could give awards. They would appear by the upvote button. IIRC, there was a gold one and a silver one, and the comment would be a slightly different color for the gold award. (The gold award would also give some gold — the currency to use awards— to the commenter/poster. This gold could then be used to buy awards. You could also get gold through real currency). Eventually there were more and more rewards added. There were some that *really* made the comment stand out (I think there was one with a fire border), but most of them were basically silver awards used as an emoji. I found this website that lists most of them at the time they were deleted: https://github.com/androiddevnotes/reddit-awards
Ooo thank you for the explanation 🙇🏽♀️
Used to be an award system, they got rid of it. They brought it back, but worse.
🤦♂️
Fr?
Awards are back on the menu boys
[удалено]
What about their legs?
Gib me 🏅
r/loveforredditors ahh post
They are?
Honestly, I didn’t even know they were gone until now
Prove it!
What's a reddit award?
They are? I only see the stupid "Pay to give a special Updoot" option.
Unfortunately the award button is in the same place as where reply used to be, so now I keep accidentally clicking that
I don't even know what they are for
I wish they weren’t. They’re an eye sore
How do we do them?
Wait really???
useless over monetization of an online platform! so wholesome! smh.
What????? Wooohooo
The people on reddit are pure shit though. None deserve an award.
You're free to leave.