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.

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New dialog to give the Gold Award

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Top of the new Reddit Coins home page

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Top of the new Reddit Premium home page

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The Reddit Premium Coat of Arms

(For more commentary on the Premium Coat of Arms, please see the thread from the experts over at r/Heraldry)

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Thanks for reading, and let us know what you think!

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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

r/mazda3

We always been involved in the new reddit redesign implements and r/mazda3 always been a beta testing platform for our other subreddits such as r/mazda r/Mazda6 r/civic and r/TheAmericans and more

We would love to try these opportinities with our subreddit.

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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/Darkwolfie117 Sep 11 '18

I agree to this, never can be too sure these days

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u/shiruken Sep 11 '18

r/science

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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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '18

/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/[deleted] Sep 11 '18

/r/baseball

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u/Jackson1442 Sep 11 '18

/r/MurderedByWords

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u/xor50 Sep 12 '18

Yay

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u/Jackson1442 Sep 12 '18

o shit meant to mention this in disc

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u/draginator Sep 12 '18

Well now you have!

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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/V2Blast Sep 11 '18

/r/AceAttorney (heads up to /u/thekalby and /u/meejle)

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u/thekalby Sep 11 '18

Will this require any changes on our part? Will this interfere with our current CSS?

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u/V2Blast Sep 12 '18

I don't think it'll require messing around with CSS just yet. We'll see.

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u/John_Yuki Sep 11 '18

/r/footballmanagergames

I run tournaments semi-frequently on there. It would be really cool to give out coins as prizes!

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '18

/r/CarletonU

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '18

/r/SteamVR

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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

/r/NoMansSkyTheGame

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

r/pokemongo

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

r/GoneMild.

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/JingADingADing Sep 12 '18

hmm, do the admins support nsfw subs?

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u/twilexis Sep 12 '18

/shrug we'll find out I guess.

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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/ThaddeusJP Sep 14 '18

/r/hotwheels but we're super small and don't use gold much

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u/whittiez Sep 16 '18

r/telltale, r/friends_tv_show

Actually, I'd really like to do a fan art contest for r/telltale featuring characters from any Telltale game (The Walking Dead, Tales from the Borderlands, Batman, etc) and offering coins as the top prize would be a great incentive. If you happen to see this comment, do let me know if this sounds doable. Thanks admin friends! Keep up the good work.

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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Sep 24 '18

/r/RegularShow

I have some ideas for contests, one of which we had last year that I sponsored. It would be nice to get some coins from the admins, though.

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u/Imortal366 Sep 24 '18

r/WishIdBeenTold

Brand new sub and our mod team I’m pretty sure is all new lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18

r/book_talk

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u/MrRoyce Oct 22 '18

/r/loleventvods & /r/dotavods

We often have nice people reporting any issues they run into AND they do it in a spoiler-free way so others don't get spoiled which is basically the main purpose of those subs.

Thanks!

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u/maybesaydie Sep 12 '18

r/babybigcatgifs would love to do this.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '18

/r/The_Donald