I imagine corporations will see gold as a way of promoting their advertising in a cheap way. What a terrible concept for a platform that was struggling anyway.
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Profit
Since now that there is a straight up monetary profit motive, would stealing someone else's original content actually make the thief open to a civil suit? Does that mean you could subpoena Reddit for the thief's contact info?
I used to post almost daily (although i wouldn't classify much of it as "quality") for the last few years, and less frequently for about a decade before that. I've posted exactly 0 times since the app-pocalypse.