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You know what I don't miss? Awards. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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Firstly, they de-valued upvotes and the equality that every user's opinion had before they were introduced.
And secondly, they were so abundant that they didn't mean anything anyway.

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[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have to say, I like discord's reactions quite a bit. But I hated reddit's awards with a violent passion. I'm not sure what the difference is, or if there would be a way to have a reaction-like feature in a public forum. Like, maybe a couple more options than just upvote & downvote (and maybe settable by the mods?) idk.

But anyway, yeah, I agree. I hated the awards, a lot.

[–] 50gp@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

discords global reactions is actually a smart way to monetise: a vanity feature that many frequent users may want and drives subs but doesnt ruin the platform

meanwhile reddits pointless award spam is just so atrocious and tacky I used script to hide them lol

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you think you'd hate them less if they were all free like the reactions on discord (and so wouldn't set aside payers from free users)? I lowkey think it was Reddit trying to make me feel jealous of the people paying that made me hate them.

[–] RheingoldRiver@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

yes, but also no, they were all sparkly and obnoxious and I didn't know what a single one of them meant. There's a standard set of emoji for a reason lol (even if it's been augmented by a bajillion custom emoji that 50% of popular servers implement at least 10-25% of).

Has any discord server implemented any emoji for a single discord award? Genuine question cos like I said I don't recognize a single one so I wouldn't know if I came across one.