Not to mention, it will require attached a name and bank account to your reddit handle. This is the real trojan horse here I suspect. Reddit's ad impressions are probably less valuable than other social media because of the pseudo anonymous nature of the platform.

Yeah, I don't see how anyone other than repost bots, serial reposters and karma farmers will benefit in any meaningful amount.

The question for me is, how are they going to stop the grains of rice?

Not to mention the psychology study that showed kids paid to draw were less likely to draw spontaneously.

“Supplementing” an intrinsic motivation with extrinsic reward destroys the intrinsic motivation.

Of course the knobs that run reddit probably don’t understand what intrinsic motivation is or how anyone could make choices based on anything other getting paid to do something.

It’s an absolutely terrible idea for a thriving community of creators working for free, to start paying them. Like the science says “this kills the platform”.

I like writing stupid Reddit comments. If they want to pay me to do it, now matter how much or little, that’s more than I’m getting paid to shoot the shit in my downtime anywhere else.

But “residuals” are where it’s at. Old comments that never die because people keep gilding or replying. Views on that content can be (and we’re dealing with Reddit, so they very well could screw it up) turned into ad dollars. Companies are turning more of their tv ad dollars to social media.

Idk. I don’t disagree, but I think the cynicism may prove wrong here. But the cost of participating is zero if it turns out I get residuals on a comment I wrote 9 years ago.