More comment clutter. Platforms like Reddit, HN, Slashdot, Lemmy, Kbin etc. have an issue called fluff principle (TL;DR: "fluff" content is voted over actual content), and now they're introducing yet another way to make fluff more visible than the content.

Ahead of us starting to roll this out on October 26th, you will find a new “Collectible Expressions” toggle under the “Media in Comments” section in your Mod Tools.

Reddit Inc. is internally fragmented, isn't it? Like, from an outside PoV they were treating the mods like shit, and now they're giving the mods the ability to opt out some feature? While killing older features that were similar in spirit to the one being introduced, delivering the message "you shouldn't give this a fuck, because it'll go away"?

The comments are the best part of this. Here are a few of them:

• [+89] "Honestly ridiculous."
• [+68] "I'd rather you do something about the relentless spam bots instead, not this garbage"
• [+45] "Dumpster Fire Collectible Expression is rather appropriate for this."
• [+20, same comment chain as above] "/all has been filled with so many bots accounts since the third party wipe, its embarrassing"
• [+55] "I appreciate your effort, but what's the point of this?"
• [-46, OP, replying to the above] "The goal is to give redditors another avenue for self expression. It is only enabled on communities that already use media in comments (i.e. GIFs, images, etc) (and can be disabled!) to ensure that it's inline with the community’s culture."
• [+30, replying to the above] "This is incorrect. It's was enabled in all 3 communities I moderate, none of which have any media in comments options enabled."