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This is literally just the r/nyt subreddit about The New York Times.

Given he apparently takes inspiration from Elon Musk, it's only a matter of time until u/spez starts adding post view limits unless you pay extra.

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[-] xyzinferno@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Buy upvotes?

The sad part is, I can absolutely see this happening. Not as an outright "gib money get updoot" but something more roudabout but effectively the same thing.

"Be heard louder with Reddit Premium! Your comments on posts will be displayed closer to the top for others to see!"

To reiterate, the above is just something I mocked up. May not be upvotes, but still rigging threads by paying Reddit money. I just wouldn't be surprised at this point.

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A new tier: reddit ultimate

With reddit ultimate you get all the benefits of reddit premium plus you get the ability to link your online and offline personas as well as a weekly free loot box.

Loot boxes (8USD each or 10 for 50USD) may contain one of the following perks:

  • a week of free Reddit ultimate.
  • "3 nuclear downvotes", like a normal downvote but counts as 50.
  • "karma MSG", for 12 hours all karma you get or lose is counted twice.
  • "look into the shadows", get a complete list of all your shadow bans.
  • "STFU", mute all chats for a week.
  • "sacrificial lamb", remove any or all non-ultimate users from your followers.
  • "heeeere's Johnny!", banned from a sub? Guess again, and this time you can't get banned by non-ultimate mods for a week.
  • 5 gold awards, appears in 17 out of 24 loot boxes

A as a new democracy oriented initiative, for 50USD you get to dethrone one mod for a month.

The loot boxes would actually be able to get me back, not to buy them of course, but to see the havoc it would bring to r/Conservative.

[-] Ulysses182@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Include me in the screenshot when this happens!

[-] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

It's sort of what World of Warcraft did with gold.

The gold farms were making TONS of money selling illegal gold in much the same way upvote farms are making a killing.

Upvotes are free for them to give, and they would have a money printer on their hands.

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