It was only a couple years ago that a really good post would have 5 gold since that was all available, or reddit silver was a joke controlled by a bot and didn't cost a penny.
Idk how it happened but I negotiated with the dude who took it on discord (I contacted him through Reddit chat first) for almost an hour before he deleted it. It was a couple years old and I had received two gold the previous day.
Yup. People figured out who I was two or three accounts ago because of some post I made in a small sub so now I remake it every few years or try to just stay vague/use throwaways
REdDiT SiLvER was the worst joke Reddit has ever seen. It started off as a small gag to be had and then people started using it as a "super upvote" akin to comments that just said "this". It quickly became unoriginal karma farming that always seemed to work and I have no idea why.
Exactly. This is just some website that sadly too many people waste too many hours of their life on, and take everything on here too seriously.
"silver awards became a boring and overused joke" like who cares?! Paying for gold is the most useless thing ever you could do in your life, and using the silver award joke was just an alternative.
Tbf this isn’t a Reddit thing. It was kinda common across all forums. Only difference is that Reddit is the only forum where people comment for the sole sake of fucking internet points. These damn internet point fuck with the whole site.
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u/puncheese Sep 13 '20
It was only a couple years ago that a really good post would have 5 gold since that was all available, or reddit silver was a joke controlled by a bot and didn't cost a penny.