Free speech on Reddit is essentially dead.

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

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

[–]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.