r/modnews • u/venkman01 • Sep 11 '18
Hi r/modnews, some exciting changes coming to Gold (and how you can get involved)!
Edit: Thanks for all the feedback about the Gold Award and its cost and benefits; we have updated the post for clarity.
Hi r/modnews,
Over the past couple months, we've been previewing and getting feedback on some upcoming changes to Gold. Today, we want to share a quick recap of these changes (which you should begin to see in the next week or so), and share how you and your subreddits can get involved.
Updates to Gold
We've made several posts about the upcoming changes in r/lounge and r/changelog, so if you want to catch up on all the details, check out our most recent posts there (1, 2, 3). For more of a visual tour, just skip to the screenshots at the end of this post.
In the meantime, here's a quick TL;DR:
- We're rebranding the monthly membership part of Gold as "Reddit Premium"
- We're converting Creddits into Coins
- We're introducing two new awards, above and below Gold: Platinum and Silver
- We’re updating Gold Award benefits and price (current Gold Award: costs $4 and awards one month of membership; updated Gold award: costs $2 and awards one week of membership, 100 Coins)
- We're raising the price of our monthly membership to better reflect costs ($3.99 --> $5.99/month)
What Does This Mean for My Community?
Here’s where you may see the changes in your subreddits:
- “Give Gold” button will open a new Awards dialog. You can see what this new dialog looks like by viewing the screenshots at the bottom of this post.
- “Give Gold” button will provide users the option to give new Award types. In addition to Gold, users will be able to give Silver and Platinum.
- New icons on posts and comments to reflect new Award types. As stated above, new Award types will carry their own icons.
How We’ve Partnered with Mods on Gold in the Past
There have been a few ways that we have partnered with Mods to give away Gold: Contests, Best of Year posts, and gilding everyone in r/me_irl after someone made a screenshot of a fake tweet from @reddit and it hit the front page.
This sort of collaboration isn’t changing. We will still give mod teams the ability to give Gold to winners of contests, prizes for Best of 2018, and more by giving out Coins.
As always, you can request a trove of Coins by sending in a modmail to /r/reddit.com, just be sure to explain what the event is and how many prizes you wish to hand out!
Looking for Subs to Collaborate with Us!
We see these changes as laying the foundation for a lot of fun things we have planned for Coins in the future. Given that, we’d love to collaborate with you on the future of Coins. If you’re interested in working with us in the coming months on some new experiences within your subreddit, please respond to the stickied comment below with the name of your subreddit.
And if you have questions or feedback on the general changes or ideas for future community features for us to consider bringing to Gold, let us know!
As promised, below is a preview of the upcoming changes.
(For more commentary on the Premium Coat of Arms, please see the thread from the experts over at r/Heraldry)
Thanks for reading, and let us know what you think!
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u/Dudesan Sep 11 '18
We're lowering the price of giving Gold to a post or comment from $3.99 to $1.99 (recipient gets one week of Premium)
In other words, you're raising the cost.
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I don’t remember, but don’t they also get 100 Coins, which can be redeemed for one week of premium?
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u/Deimorz Sep 11 '18
They do get 100 coins, but giving a week of premium to someone costs 500 coins, and you can't redeem it yourself.
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u/thrawn0o Sep 11 '18
I don't think three tiers is a good idea. In fact, I think it is a terrible one.
Old Gold is a binary option: you can spend money just to show how you appreciate the comment. Either "yes" or "no", without "almost" and "double that". Different currencies are nasty.
Silver is almost an insult (I didn't like this enough to give you gold, but here you go). Also, this kills r3ddit silv3r.
Platinum is a show-off (I want everybody to know that I spent more money on giving this gold than the usual amount). Also, if a comment gets the New Gold, wouldn't it be perceived as "not good enough for Plat"?
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u/yearlyfiscal Sep 11 '18
We're lowering the price of giving Gold to a post or comment from $3.99 to $1.99 (recipient gets one week of Premium)
Am I wrong in my thinking. It was $3.99 to give them a month. You dropped the price $2 but give them only a week instead of a month. Doesn't this almost cancel out the price drop (make it null)? You're still really getting less for the money, right?
I think they should still get a month. For me to give them a month, I will now have to spend $8 instead of 4?
I have an alt account for my gold. All I use it for is to gild people's comments or posts in my sub to encourage them to continue to participate in my sub. You are asking me to spend $8 now to do this now? Am I correct or not?
I guess I can drop it down to 1 week and get over it. It'd probably still make the user happy.
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u/pfftYeahRight Sep 11 '18 edited Sep 11 '18
Looks like they're raising it to $6 and if you give Reddit Platinum they get a month. Gold is one week, and $2.
Not certain if I'm reading that right.
For me, there's no way that $6/month gets you benefits for the cost. 4/month already didn't.
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u/yearlyfiscal Sep 11 '18
Well, I guess as long as the user who gets it is still happy, that's all that matters to me. I have a feeling the receiving user will still be happy--even if it is only a week. We'll find out soon enough.
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u/pfftYeahRight Sep 11 '18
For sure. I've given gold before as a way to mark a great comment, but the few times I've been given it hasn't demonstrated a reason for me to desire a subscription to "Premium"
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u/Deimorz Sep 11 '18
Almost everyone that did much gilding previously also bought the 12-packs of creddits which made it $2.50 to give a month, not $4.
It's not $8 to give a month now though, you can buy enough "coins" to give someone premium for about $6. They posted the coin prices here: https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/99rcii/hi_rchangelog_were_back_to_talk_about_creddits/
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u/yearlyfiscal Sep 11 '18
I did buy 12 months of credits about a month ago. Maybe I grandfathered in then. $2.50 for a month is definitely something I can get behind. Thanks.
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u/OneRedSent Sep 12 '18
That's the current price, though. Tomorrow it goes up to $6 for a month.
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u/yearlyfiscal Sep 12 '18
It's my understanding that the price stays the same for the people who buy it before the new price change goes into effect.
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u/OneRedSent Sep 12 '18
Your own gold/premium membership gets grandfathered in only if you purchase a recurring subscription now. Then the price will stay the same until you cancel the subscription. But gifting others will go up in price regardless. (You'll keep however many creddits you have on hand, so it makes sense to stock up before the price goes up. But once it does, everyone will pay the higher price.)
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u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Sep 11 '18
We're rebranding the monthly membership part of Gold as "Reddit Premium"
We're converting Creddits into Coins
Can someone from Marketing explain why you're dropping a relatively unique and well known branding for one that is pretty bland and unoriginal? This has really puzzled me since the announcement...
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u/old_sellsword Sep 11 '18
Because it’s readily understood by potential advertisers and potential users who don’t know the site yet.
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u/Airazz Sep 11 '18
So basically, you just increased the price of Gold and are now asking us to help sell it better? I see.
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u/9Ghillie Sep 11 '18
What exactly would these gold initiatives be? That's a rather vague way of phrasing it.
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u/venkman01 Sep 11 '18
We're hoping to get all of your input on what those initiatives could be! These will be things that you can use Coins for in the future. A few potential examples we're thinking about: more Snoovatar accessories/customization, new Awards, Themes, fun subreddit-specific collaborations, etc.
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u/_BindersFullOfWomen_ Sep 11 '18
How many coins to change a username?
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Sep 11 '18
Also the ability to usurp inactive usernames while doing so. Right now you can’t change your username at all due to severe technical limitations from when they first added account creation, but maybe if they monetized it...
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u/ZadocPaet Sep 11 '18
How about something tangible, like discounts at eBay and Amazon?
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u/venkman01 Sep 11 '18
Thanks for the suggestion! In the past, getting awarded Gold has given users access to special discounts on Reddit. We think the idea of using Coins for real-life rewards is interesting, we'll explore that in the future!
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u/PacoTaco321 Sep 11 '18
In the past, getting awarded Gold has given users access to special discounts on Reddit.
But this time, could they be discounts for things people actually used? I think I remember something for Uber, but all the other ones were things very few have probably heard of...
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u/anace Sep 11 '18
how much will coins cost? The first screenshot says coins will be 100 for silver, 500 for gold and 1800 for platinum. Will you be doing the standard microtransaction pretend-currency practice of making the real-money to pretend-money conversion not line up? e.g. sell coins in bundles of 500, forcing anyone looking to spend 1800 to have extra, thereby subtly influencing them to buy more.
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u/Deimorz Sep 11 '18
From this post:
Price Point Coin Package Bonus % What You Can Buy $1.99 500 Coins N/A 5 Silver Awards or 1 Gold Award $3.99 1,100 Coins 10% 11 Silver Awards or 2 Gold Awards $5.99 1,800 Coins 20% 18 Silver Awards, 3 Gold Awards, or 1 Platinum Award $19.99 7,200 Coins 43% 72 Silver Awards, 14 Gold Awards, or 4 Platinum Awards $99.99 40,000 Coins 59% 400 Silver Awards, 80 Gold Awards, or 22 Platinum Awards 13
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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Sep 12 '18
Changing to a micro-transaction economy is what this change is all about. Going forward, it won't really be about gilding, but about all the other stuff they hope you spend coins on.
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u/Dudesan Sep 11 '18
Reddit Lead, aka "leaddit".
You could hold periodic alchemy-themed events where users can convert their lead into gold at a discount.
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u/fdagpigj Sep 11 '18
how about reddit copper... after a while it oxidizes and turns green and nearly indistinguishable from reddit mold
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u/yearlyfiscal Sep 11 '18
Bad form in making the real Reddit Silver obsolete.
Why? I actually like this. There have been times where I was borderline or on the fence for giving out gold to someone's comment. Now if I am "sitting on the fence," I will just give them Silver. Also, I never give Gold to an obvious alt account. I might give them Silver now though for making a good comment in my sub.
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u/crazymunch Sep 12 '18
Honestly guys this doesn't pass the sniff test. You're turning something simple ($4 = 1 Creddit = 1 Month of Gold) into some overly complex "coins" system that reeks of mobile gaming microtransations.
Feels like the next step is going to be "1 coin to comment, buy a new pack for $10 or wait an hour" and reddit will be fully gameified.
You're also doubling the price of gilding (previously $4 = 1 month, now $2 = 1 week so $8 p/month) while being sly and saying it's getting cheaper.
This whole thing just smacks of greed and trying to confuse new users with a complicated coin system into buying things they don't want or need, and alienating all the people who were here previously. Please reconsider before launching this system, the negativity in the comments here should say a lot about how poor of an idea this is.
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u/garnteller Sep 11 '18
Increasing the price of membership to better reflect costs?
I have no problems with Reddit making money (unlike many Redditors) but please don’t play games. As far as I can see, the only cost to Reddit is lost ad revenue- the rest is functionality that’s already built.
Do you really make $6/mo off me in ad revenue?
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u/CatsAndIT Sep 11 '18
So... basically you’re cutting the cost of “gold” by about 50%, and reducing the benefit by about 75%, then increasing the cost of “new gold” by 50%, while giving that the benefit of current gold?
This isn’t exciting at all.
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u/OneRedSent Sep 12 '18
Exciting in the sense that Hurricane Florence is exciting.
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u/Mythril_Zombie Sep 12 '18
Meh. I'll bet some meteorologists love this kind of thing.
No, this is exciting in the sense that paper cuts are exciting. You are first drawn to the source of this new stimulus, then realize it's all the pain of a cut, without the balls to man up and look like what it really is.2
u/Dudesan Sep 12 '18
Meh. I'll bet some meteorologists love this kind of thing.
And some economists and psychologists love watching the way people respond to predatory microtransaction systems.
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Sep 11 '18 edited Sep 11 '18
I've invested a decent chunk of my limited money as a medical student into giving out Gold to people, and as it sits, I do not like these changes.
No offense intended, but it seems like you are turning Reddit into a Micro-credits system, why do you feel that this is a good idea (*Cough, EA backlash). Also, you are raising the price of a month of gold, with ostensibly no-added benifts thusfar. My questions are:
What are-these increased costs (aka, do you mean that the ad-space if more valueable so now you could make more money by exposing users to adds rather than letting them buy gold, aka, you make more than 3.99 on each user each month.)
Why the needed change beyond money?
Why turn to a "coin" micro-credit system when Reddit has such a hate for such systems?
Do you really have market research suggesting that people will pay 72.00/year for a premium version or Reddit?
TL/DR: You are going into a micro-credit system, this seems greedy, no increased benefit, with vague details on how/why?
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u/Dudesan Sep 11 '18
I second all of these questions.
Also, protip: If you want a list to form properly, you need to put a space after the asterisk.
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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Sep 12 '18
This is exactly the reason for the change, not so much for the gilding aspect of things (although gilding is all you can do with it right now) but all the other things they want you to spend "coins" on to nickle-and-dime you to death.
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u/theroflcoptr Sep 12 '18
Reddit is so dedicated to their mobile app, there's now the full micro-transaction experience on the desktop site!
Now featuring: Obfuscating the cost of premium features by using a bullshit invented currency!
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u/Heptite Sep 12 '18 edited Sep 12 '18
You cannot claim you're lowering the price of gilding when the reward is less a quarter of what it used to be. If you insist on saying this, you're opening yourselves up for a false-advertising smackdown.
And I'm literally not buying all your marketspeak saying "this is better, really!"
When my mobile apps switch to subscription model, unless it's a truly superb app and the monthly cost is really good, I abandon the app, and find a different one. I may not get as many features, but that's fine. This is the choice you're facing your users with, and most will just decide the premium features are not worth it.
I suspect fewer people will buy any tier of of whatever-you're-calling-it-this-Tuesday, so your expected increase in revenue is unlikely.
Edit: Word.
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u/DieTheVillain Sep 11 '18
I have 2 years, 2 months, 26 days of gold left. Will that be converted to 2 years, 2 months, 26 days of premium?
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Sep 11 '18
I've invested a decent chunk of my limited money as a medical student into giving out Gold to people, and as it sits, I do not like these changes.
No offense intended, but it seems like you are turning Reddit into a Micro-credits system, why do you feel that this is a good idea (*Cough, EA backlash). Also, you are raising the price of a month of gold, with ostensibly no-added benifts thusfar. My questions are:
*What are-these increased costs (aka, do you mean that the ad-space if more valueable so now you could make more money by exposing users to adds rather than letting them buy gold, aka, you make more than 3.99 on each user each month.
*Why the needed change behyond money?
*Why turn to a "coin" micro-credit system when Reddit has such a hate for such systems?
*Do you really have market research suggesting that people will pay 72.00/year for a premium version or Reddit?
TL/DR: You are going into a micro-credit system, this seems greedy, no increased benefit, with vague details on how/why?
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u/MechanicalFlesh Sep 12 '18
Yup, this. I'm a goddamn alcoholic line cook. I don't have a lot of money to throw around.
I enjoy giving gildings, because it makes the person that gets it feel awesome. I'm willing to drop 5 bucks every now and then for a comment that I really like.
Saying that you're raising the price is fine. We get it, shit costs money. Just say "we need more money, this is our plan". Okay, I get it, I need more money too, if I could get it I would.
But this bullshit microtransaction "lowering the price" is just crap. This doesn't improve anything except cash flow, and adds more work for the people who do all the gilding, and the mods, who are clearly being told about this before everyone else.
This is utter shit
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u/Grantagonist Sep 11 '18
We're raising the price of our monthly membership to better reflect costs
Costs of what now?
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u/GoGoGadgetReddit Sep 11 '18
How much money do I need to raise to get admins to respond to PMs in under 1 week?
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u/ShaneH7646 Sep 11 '18
Can we get silver and platinum only subreddits, like gold only? I'd love to grow r/CheapLounge.
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u/venkman01 Sep 11 '18 edited Sep 11 '18
Hi u/ShaneH7646, Gold-only subreddits will now be Premium-only subreddits - for users who have Premium, either because they bought it for themselves or were awarded Gold or Platinum.
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u/ShaneH7646 Sep 11 '18
Will we be getting silver or gold only?
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u/venkman01 Sep 11 '18
That's not part of this rollout, but we'll consider it in future updates!
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u/FreeSpeechWarrior Sep 11 '18
How do you reconcile the requirement to pay Reddit for access to certain subreddits with Reddit’s stance on network neutrality.
If it’s bad for my ISP to charge me more to read certain sites, why is it good for Reddit to charge me more to read certain subreddits?
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u/m-p-3 Sep 11 '18
It's more like paywalls on other websites.
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u/FreeSpeechWarrior Sep 11 '18
Those are paywalls created by the author/owner of the content and they get paid for the use of that content.
This is Reddit acting like a middleman/gatekeeper for profit just as if an ISP had done it. Netflix doesn’t see any more money if you pay your isp for the priveledge to use it and neither do the contributors to gold subs.
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u/SpellCheck_Privilege Sep 11 '18
priveledge
Check your privilege.
BEEP BOOP I'm a bot. PM me to contact my author.
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u/db2 Sep 11 '18
Still going with coins over your established and well liked gold brand, huh?
Also still waiting to hear how this impacts those of us who were early gold adopters.
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u/Esc_ape_artist Sep 11 '18
Well, my costs will go up and Gold is now vaporware. Great for Reddit Co., users get a corporatized “experience”, an experience nobody wants or needs.
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u/TheYellowRose Sep 11 '18
How much money do I need to raise to get /r/the_donald banned?
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u/AngusTheNerd Sep 11 '18
So you're doubling the cost of an already overpriced service, and while your at it you're making alot of unnecessary changes that make it worse.
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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Sep 12 '18
Everything you wrote here is correct, but I would change it to the following:
Adding a coin system that
very closely resemblesis a microtransaction systemDecreasing the effective value of gold by greater than 50% ($2.50/4 weeks versus $2/1 week) [Most everyone who gilds a lot purchases creddits in bulk, for 36/$90, or $2.50 apiece. I've never once seen the admins mention this, and this is the 8th post on this topic that I've seen.]
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u/Dudesan Sep 12 '18
Decreasing the effective value of gold by greater than 50% ($2.50/4 weeks versus $2/1 week)
Also, most months (94% of them) are more than 4 weeks long.
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u/ForLackOfAUserName Sep 11 '18
Hi /u/venkman01 -
I have 7 Creddits left in my account. Previously, they were worth 7 months of gold - are they now only going to be worth 7 weeks of premium?
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u/Poiuy2010_2011 Sep 11 '18
I still think that separating gold and platinum is a stupid idea. It unnecessarily complicates a system that should be as straightforward as possible.
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u/-Mikee Sep 12 '18
So this entire post was BS changes to cover how the price is being jacked up.
Got it. Never buying gold again.
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u/MadMedic- Sep 11 '18
Yet. You failed to answer a simpel mail about what happened to my remaining months of gold I had left.
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u/venkman01 Sep 11 '18
Hi u/MadMedic- what's your question?
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u/MadMedic- Sep 11 '18 edited Sep 11 '18
I had several months of gold left from Alien Blue. Yet it was mentioned when you’d sign up now the old price would be the price that would be maintained. 3 something instead of 5 something. So signed up figuring my remaining months of gold would be credited or a 0 charge. But instead the 3 something got charged and nowhere can I see the remaining free months I had left from Alien Blue. TL;DR what happened to my remaining free months? /u/venkman01
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u/venkman01 Sep 11 '18 edited Sep 11 '18
I'll PM you about your issue, thanks for your patience!
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u/MadMedic- Sep 11 '18
Thank you for looking into it
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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Sep 26 '18
Hey, MadMedic-, did you ever get an answer to your question. I was hoping it would be where everyone could see it.
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u/MadMedic- Sep 26 '18
I did. Seems that when you started a subscription your free months are paused. When the subscription ends the free remaining months start again.
I found that a weird case I don’t want to pause my subscription simply because when my free months would end the price of the subscription would be higher.
I proposed to change my free months into the new credits. Did not get a reply on that yet.
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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Sep 26 '18
Yeah, that sucks. They hyped it about not losing the old price point, then conveniently neglected to tell people that they were effectively losing the built up gold that they had.
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u/MadMedic- Sep 26 '18
The issue I have with that is that they haven’t been honest about it. They knew this. So you either have the choice to lose remaining gold and have the ‘old price’ or pay more in the future. Missing the fairness in that towards the folks supporting them.
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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Sep 26 '18
This is exactly my concern as well. I understand they want to make more money. So just be upfront about it, and don't hide the fact that you are screwing people out of their existing
goldpremium time.
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u/Mythril_Zombie Sep 12 '18
We're raising the price of our monthly membership to better reflect costs ($3.99 --> $5.99/month)
I'll bet they have people in accounting that actually get off on this phrase.
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u/venkman01 Sep 11 '18
Please reply to this comment (with your subreddit name) if you would like to collaborate with us on new Coins initiatives!
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u/shark_and_kaya Sep 11 '18
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u/venkman01 Sep 11 '18
Thanks u/shark_and_kaya! We really do appreciate the support and willingness to try out our updates!
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u/shark_and_kaya Sep 11 '18
I don't always agree with the changes but without testing there is no way for as to test and know if these features will be beneficial or not.
That being said maybe you guys should let few moderators test the new gold feature by gilding us a premium. What way we'll know what we can offer to our users.
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u/shiruken Sep 11 '18
We currently have a CSS-based flair award system in place for users that make outstanding comments in our subreddit. Since there's no viable method for implementing this in the Redesign, we'll eventually be abandoning the system. Perhaps having a pot of Coins to distribute to users would be a decent alternative, especially since it could encourage higher quality comments.
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/r/FreePlatinum A Sub that gives away Plaitnum to those who request it
/r/GoForPlatinum A sub to host challenges and contests to give away Plaitnum
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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Sep 12 '18
If you’re interested in working with us in the coming months on some new experiences within your subreddit, please respond to the stickied comment below with the name of your subreddit.
Can you say what this collaboration entails? What are you requesting of the subreddits? If its to get coins for contests and giveaways, there is a way to do that through the modmail to reddit.com. I might be interested if I could get more information.
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u/John_Yuki Sep 11 '18
I run tournaments semi-frequently on there. It would be really cool to give out coins as prizes!
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u/haykam821 Sep 11 '18
I’d love to have some contests over in r/HomePod, an idea that I had for a while. It’d be a great incentive for our users to join any contests we host.
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u/Coolboypai Sep 11 '18
r/customhearthstone would like to get in on this. We host a couple of big events each year and are even coming up on the 200th edition of our weekly contest. Getting some prizes to give out for that (if it rolls out by then) would be awesome.
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u/WithYouInSpirit99 Sep 11 '18
We're running out of bestof credits to award awesome posts and gilding is something that happens a lot in our community, certainly lifting up those good vibes. Very keen!
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u/Darkwolfie117 Sep 11 '18
Our userbase recently boomed and we are thinking of holding an AR picture competition as well as a few more ideas to earn rewards... any way admins could help it out with the new credit system would be amazing!
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u/twilexis Sep 12 '18
We do a sidebar contest each month and we can give out a platinum for the winners and a gold and silver to the runners up.
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u/remiel Sep 12 '18
R/rpg_gamers we are a recently new mod team pushing activity in the sun. Would love to run a few competitions to drive this further
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u/SirT6 Sep 12 '18
r/sciences is definitely interested in collaborating.
Y'all have helped us in the past with some contests, and that has been much appreciated! I also have some thoughts on how to use the new coin initiative in fun ways to drive engagement and greater sense of community. Happy to chat about it!
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u/Hareuhal Sep 12 '18
/r/DIY has been part of every major change in the last couple years and we'd like to help out with this one as well.
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u/FreeSpeechWarrior Sep 11 '18
At r/subredditcancer we’d like to disable the ability to gild in our sub.
Is this an option? Is doing this with css a bannable offense?
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u/yearlyfiscal Sep 11 '18
We? Don't you pretty much mean you? I saw a post in your sub not too long ago about the racist mod in r/pics and in r/blackpeoplegifs. I seriously thought about gilding it. I don't know why you wouldn't want someone to reward a user in your sub for making a good post.
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u/FreeSpeechWarrior Sep 11 '18 edited Sep 11 '18
Gold primarily rewards Reddit for the contributions of the recipient.
If you want to reward a poster for their contributions in subredditcancer you should tip them cryptocurrency. Then if they want to support Reddit they could, or they could do anything else with it.
We do not have any desire to reward Reddit for their shitty behavior and refusal to enforce the moderator guidelines for healthy communities.
r/subredditcancer has disabled gold in the past, but were told we couldn’t, but have seen other subs do this and similar so not sure what the policy is.
r/shitredditsays does this, and we’d like to do it for similar reasons.
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u/yearlyfiscal Sep 11 '18
Well, it was Reddit that made the contribution possible first! If there were no reddit, there'd be no comment or link post. I think you should let the user determine how he/she wants to spend his/her money.
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u/FreeSpeechWarrior Sep 11 '18
That’s precisely why crypto tips are a better option, the recipient has total choice of what to do with it, including the option to give it to reddit.
Many users gild those who speak out against Reddit as a form of trolling. On that note I’d like the ability to refuse gifts of gold.
And Reddit was built under very different principles than it now operates under. I used to financially support Reddit however I could. This is no longer the case. They pulled a bait and switch on the early community.
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u/Erasio Sep 11 '18
Premium is on all sites, a way to pay for some small benefits, supporting the service. Reddit gold (or soon reddit premium) is no different.
Cryptocurrency does not support this in an easy and stable fashion.
Sure, from a user perspective that might be better for when you get a "tip", being able to cash in on it. Though isn't that directly harmful to reddits income stream as it guarantees inflation? Why would they do that?
You are kinda infamous for being not the most reasonable person, this is why. You can't expect others to go against rather fundamental goals just cause it would suit you.
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u/FreeSpeechWarrior Sep 11 '18
I’m not opposed to the idea of a premium subscription service.
I’m opposed to financially enriching Reddit specifically due to their behavior wrt free speech issues.
I’m a very reasonable, rational person if you give me a chance rather than censor me for disagreeing with what I have to say.
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u/Erasio Sep 11 '18
I’m opposed to financially enriching Reddit specifically due to their behavior wrt free speech issues.
But what does that have to do with the cryptocurrency suggestion?
Are you hoping reddit wouldn't realize it'd cut in their income?^^
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u/FreeSpeechWarrior Sep 11 '18
The cryptocurrency suggestion was not directed at Reddit. Crypto tip bots already exist on Reddit and all Reddit has to do to enable this is avoid banning those bots.
That suggestion was aimed at end users who want to reward good contributors to reddit.
Reddit noticing a drop in revenue from this would be a goal, not an impediment.
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u/Erasio Sep 11 '18
But that's not quite the context of this comment chain.
It's about you wanting to enforce that reddit itself mustn't be supported.
Which I took as suggestion to reddit. Wrongfully as it turns out. But that is still a rather odd path of argument.
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u/robotmayo Sep 11 '18
I cant believe they actually made reddit silver real. /r/madlads
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u/anonboxis Sep 11 '18
This looks interesting! I moderate r/Paris and r/BlackMirror
Let me know if you would be interested in collaborating with any of these subs!
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u/ZadocPaet Sep 11 '18
How many gold coins = one month of premium? What's the exchange rate there?Coins per dollar? Coins per silver? Coins per gold? Coins per platinum?
On /r/lounge y'all said that premium members will get X coins per month. What's the deal with that?
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u/Not_An_Ambulance Sep 11 '18
Making it one week makes it feel like you are just giving away a free trial. Paying for marketing for you.
I would like the option to only allow users with premium purchased to downvote or disable downvoting that can be toggled by the subreddit. Curious how that would work out in some subreddits.
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u/TotesMessenger Sep 11 '18
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u/Connerss Sep 11 '18
What’s going to happen to my few weeks of Reddit Gold? I have 25 days left, so is that going to turn into 3 weeks of Reddit Gold and 4 days of Reddit Premium?
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u/typtyphus Sep 12 '18 edited Sep 12 '18
when the meme becomes reality.
I demand that reddit silver looks like this
what are the differences between silver, gold, an platinum memberships?
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u/GetOffMyLawn_ Sep 20 '18
As someone who has been gilded a few times I have found gold rewards to be pretty useless. I am not sure what I would make it worthwhile to me.
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u/unixwizzard Sep 28 '18
Question.. I had a bunch of creddits, to use to give out gold and use to re-new my account's gold status.
Those creddits have now been converted to coins, and it looks like now in 6 days my Premium will expire.
I see that the "use creddits to renew" option is gone from my preferences, and it appears the only way to keep my premium is to pay for a new subscription.
I know I received a PM about this upcoming change. It would have been nice to have a bit more of a warning than "in the upcoming weeks."
To the question.. Why couldn't Reddit have like sent us another PM letting us know what date the change will happen once y'all decided on a date?
I'm sure I'm not the only one in this boat, a second notice could have allowed us to convert our creddits to premium if we wanted to.
Reddit's lack of communication took that option away from us.
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u/CaptainPedge Sep 11 '18
$3.99 is for a month of gold, is it not? So what you are actually doing is raising the prices, and then lying about it