Mereo

joined 2 years ago
[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 330 points 2 years ago (33 children)

The concept behind the program is straightforward. Redditors who receive substantial gold and karma from other community members can potentially convert these virtual rewards into real-world money that can be cashed out.

sigh, that's desperation. This means that the discussion on Reddit will not be natural or organic, it will cease to be human. Redditors will be like dogs, where they shitpost and post comments that everyone agrees with so they can make money, basically doing what the master tells them in order to get their treat. Reddit as we know it will cease to exist.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

And it's understandable. Reddit had more than 16 years to build up the user base that it now has.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Indeed. Western society tends to be individualistic and forgets that masks are primarily used to protect those around you from disease.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Wait, what?!? In the US, Supreme Court judges have no code of ethics?!?! If I'm not mistaken, here in Canada all judges are bound by a code of ethics: https://cjc-ccm.ca/sites/default/files/documents/2021/CJC_20-301_Ethical-Principles_Bilingual%20FINAL.pdf

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Haha. The bots are screaming in morse codes.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The Nice, Noice, Noiicce... threads.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

What I do is deliberately go to a cashier, even if the line is extremely long, and I see more and more people doing the same. This forces more lines to open. One time they asked if I could use the self-checkout to speed up the process. I replied that if the items were cheaper at the self-checkout, sure, otherwise I'd stay in line.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Indeed. Karma was simply gamification. It made conversations superficial.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

Instances are like countries that have their own values and rules. For example, technology@beehaw.org will not be the same as technology@lemmy.world. Beehaw is a heavily moderated instance, while Lemmy.world is more “free”. What can be posted on technology@lemmy.world will not necessarily be the case on technology@beehaw.org.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

And I would like to add to all the answers. Instances are like countries that have their own values and rules. For example, technology@beehaw.org will not be the same as technology@lemmy.world. Beehaw is a heavily moderated instance, while Lemmy.world is more "free". What can be posted on technology@lemmy.world will not necessarily be the case on technology@beehaw.org.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Extremely weird. I let it for like 5 minutes and it still doesn't work.

[–] Mereo@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

It will. Reddit took more than 18 years to get the 500 million monthly users it has right now.

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