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Reddit will start paying you real money for your karma (techcrunch.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Reddit will start paying you real money for your karma::Reddit announced a contributor program on Monday, which awards users actual, real money for their fake internet points. Now, eligible users will be able

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Do you think people will buy gold for spam and click bait, though? It's basically a person paying $2 to give the poster $1. Who's going to give money to clickbait?

What it will do is spawn some heavy, heavy super users that will just immediately post every article as soon as it drops from a swath of different websites in hopes of getting paid.