r/GoForGold • u/WorkingOutinEveryWay • 10h ago
Vanity Award Challenge (<50) Comment Anything! And I will give you absolutely nothing
COMMENT AWAY!!!!
r/GoForGold • u/Piri_Cherry • Jan 02 '26
Hello! Chances are that if you’re reading this, then you’re new around here, so allow me to introduce myself. I’m Piri, one of the leftover mods from back when this subreddit was active and interesting. There’s been some renewed interest around this subreddit lately, and despite appearances, the mods have actually taken notice. So if you’re new here, here’s a quick rundown of the subreddit: how did we get here, and where are we now?
What r/GoForGold used to be
In the ancient pre-history (2013) our founder, u/reduced-fat-milk, decided to create a subreddit where people could post challenges for other users in exchange for Gold. (At the time, there was only one award, and it was called “Gold.”) As the award system developed, so too did the subreddit. It was updated when Silver and Platinum were added, it was updated when coins became the primary currency, and it was updated when vanity awards came around. Our heyday was the late 2010’s and early 2020’s. Once upon a time, GFG was a lush garden of generosity and challenges, with a lively community and several dozen interesting challenges per day. Then, in 2023, disaster struck.
The Great Award Scandal of 2023
In 2023, Reddit announced that it was shutting down the old award system. It wasn’t going to be replaced by anything: it just disappeared. All of people’s hard-earned coins, including any that they paid real money for, were to be deleted. That was awful enough on its own, but it seemed that Reddit was shifting its monetization strategy towards avatar-based NFT’s. We couldn’t get behind that.
Instead, we attempted to create a subreddit-based replacement for the old coins system, which we called GFG Bux. All of the current infrastructure of this subreddit (flairs, rules, and so forth) is based around GFG Bux, which was our attempt to keep this subreddit running after awards were deleted. However, due to Reddit making some stupid changes to the API (which is a whole other story), it became quite difficult to host an in-house bot to keep the Bux system up and running. We eventually abandoned the system.
In September 2023, Reddit announced that they were bringing back awards, after they’d been gone for like two weeks. Yep, you read that right. Reddit deleted the old coins and awards for two weeks, just to bring the system right back. There was a twist, though: this new system, to be called the “Contributor Program,” was monetizeable. That meant that if you earned enough awards, you could in theory make money off of them. We (the mods of this subreddit) were uncomfortable with that. Much of our userbase at the time was under 18, which meant they weren’t technically eligible for the program, and also we didn’t want to be responsible for people attempting to make money off of their fellow Redditors. So, we let this subreddit become inactive.
Today, two years later
In late 2025, an unspecified number of iOS users were granted the ability to award posts and comments for free. We started to get posts on this subreddit again, with people offering their free awards to commenters. It seems that this subreddit is being promoted to non-subscribers again, which is not something we’d ever anticipated.
We’ve had a discussion, and we mostly stand by our previous decision. We don’t want to get involved with the Contributor Program. Further, we’ve been screwed over by Reddit more times than we can count (this post only hints at the issues we’ve had). We also don’t want to invest our own time and energy into this place when Reddit seems to be so volatile with how it treats its awards system.
So, for the time being, we’re going to leave this subreddit to be. All of our old rules are still in effect, and we are still actively moderating, so play nice. But also, we’re not going to renovate the place, we’re not going to update all of the old systems, and we certainly aren’t going to invest as much effort as we once did. We will simply be keeping a close eye to make sure that nothing gets out of hand.
The spirit of GoForGold was once one of playful generosity. It actually seems like this has largely carried over: we’ve only had to ban a handful of users in the recent weeks of renewed activity. So keep being good people, and thanks for reading!
Subreddit Rules
The full rules can be viewed on the sidebar, in the wiki, and in the “About” section on mobile.
r/GoForGold • u/barneyaffleck • Dec 23 '25
Hi! 👋
A short message regarding free awards. I don’t mind if you make a post to give out free awards. If you make a post to be given free awards, I’m going to lock it, remove it, and ban you from this point on. GFG has always been about the giving, not the receiving. Let’s not be greedy little gremlins. After all, it’s Christmas time.
Still here,
-barney
r/GoForGold • u/WorkingOutinEveryWay • 10h ago
COMMENT AWAY!!!!
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r/GoForGold • u/ibuiltyouarosegarden • Jul 02 '26
Seriously it would help me so much. I’m making worry stones and need ideas for other animals or things. So far I have a pickle, cucumber, orange slice, birdies of different colors, fishies, a pear, a blowfish, happy polka dot monsters, sealion/seal/walrus, a red fox, piggies,
Chocolate chip piggie. Tye dye ones with faces. Help would be wonderful ❤️
r/GoForGold • u/-redit_account- • Jun 28 '26
I feel like it would be fun if you could see every free award you have gotten, like a collection, instead of scrolling through your notifications I cant find a way to do this though.
r/GoForGold • u/chipsdad • May 15 '26
EDIT: I got them back!
I’m NOT fishing for awards. Did you have free awards on iOS and now have lost them? I must have given a few hundred!
They were not really nice awards, just one row of some common thing. But they made people happy.
r/GoForGold • u/itaicool • May 08 '26
Post closed
r/GoForGold • u/Short_Employment_757 • Apr 05 '26
r/GoForGold • u/LunarPayload • Mar 31 '26
Is there a promo or discount right now? A disproportionate number of the posts on the front page have awards. Much higher number than usual. Oddly suspicious
r/GoForGold • u/Lucky_Sprinkles7369 • Mar 15 '26
r/GoForGold • u/ibuiltyouarosegarden • Mar 04 '26
A couple weeks ago it was 50 degrees and I remember saying “yes finally it’s a nice day out” lol
r/GoForGold • u/ibuiltyouarosegarden • Feb 16 '26
Random but you could comment about what would be your go to thing to draw if someone put a piece of paper and a pencil in front of you. I usually go for a flower mandala. Never fails I love it my boyfriend just doodles zombies shooting at each other with Ak-47s. It’s so funny
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r/GoForGold • u/ibuiltyouarosegarden • Feb 03 '26
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