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In all my years in reddit I only got gold once. The prerequisites of needing 10 is just bonkers.
After 10 years, approaching a million comment karma, and many sourced write-ups and copy pastas I got a fair amount. Probably 200 of a mixture of gold and the occasional platinum. This was concentrated in later years as I better understood reddit, and understood specific audiences more. I strove to give genuinely good information, too.
Unfortunately reddit's admins are lazy, suck, and some subs' moderators even worse (looking at r/news) and they screwed me. Their loss. I'll find another platform to publish content, like here of course and elsewhere.
Right, so in a good year, you'd have gotten some beer money from it. And in return, you'd have to give reddit your real name and credit card information.
This is honestly even more pathetic than I ever imagined it could have been. Reddit is trying to emulate the "influencer" model from other social media, but doesn't want to actually pony up cash to do it. YouTube has bought Mr Beast like six(?) houses at this point. Reddit won't even buy your friends a round at the local pub.
Right. Unless you're a complete power-user whose entire life revolves around reddit, even the it's a massive risk akin to saying, "I'm going to go start a successful YouTube channel!" (which would still be a better venture).
I usually get "gold" by complaining about how admins / employees can give it out for free to drum up interest.
My biggest gold events were saying "don't buy gold" during Paomageddon. To think, I would have almost gotten enough money to cover the Uber ride to the bank!
Did you follow niche subs? I noticed when I was more active in default subs, I got gold more often. As the default subs got less bearable and I shifted towards smaller communities, I barely got gold anymore.
Or maybe the quality of my posts just became shit.
Depends if I was just looking to karma whore or just shitpost for fun. When I was trying I could easily rack up karma. But even so it's a lot of work.
Nah makes perfect sense, they don't wanna have to pay out.