Free speech on Reddit is essentially dead.

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[–]Fat_Neckbeard 40 insightful - 39 fun40 insightful - 38 fun41 insightful - 39 fun -  (5 children)

Free speech isn't dead on Reddit. You can say whatever you want as long as it's advertiser friendly! Also, remember to buy Reddit Gold™!

Edit: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger! :)

[–][deleted] 22 insightful - 3 fun22 insightful - 2 fun23 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

I really hope the whole gold thing doesn't get implemented here. I'd much rather they just stick up a donation link or something.

[–]King_Brutus 19 insightful - 7 fun19 insightful - 6 fun20 insightful - 7 fun -  (3 children)

Gold was honestly so cringey. Like "let me pay money to this free site for an incredibly boring and repetitive comment/post".

[–]FLCL 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

The most ridiculous ones I remember seeing were posts linking charities and places to donate getting a ton of gold(s). Like they'd rather give reddit money than any charity.

[–]SailorAground 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I would love to know how much of the gold and awards are used to pay for advertising, astroturfing, and marketing. It wouldn't be difficult to use Reddit Gold as a currency to hype posts and ads and orchestrate marketing campaigns through a bot network. Just like many bots are put through a period of karma farming to get their social credit high enough to be impactful.

[–]TheKsist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Part of the thing is that reddit mods (or maybe just admins) could award posts without paying for it, artificially inflating the perceived value of posts, which were usually leftist.