this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
90 points (74.2% liked)

Technology

59123 readers
2299 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
90
Reddit will start paying you real money for your karma (techcrunch.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
43 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Reddit will start paying you real money for your karma::Reddit announced a contributor program on Monday, which awards users actual, real money for their fake internet points. Now, eligible users will be able

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of the Behavioral Economics classic case of the daycare that started charging for late pickup. Instead of disincentivizing bad behavior, it assigned a price to a service which people became happy to pay, when prior they avoided doing it due to social stigma.