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Reddit Tests Tipping Users (cnet.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: Reddit is experimenting with tipping users, starting with the shittymorph subreddit, a group dedicated to the man who has memorably bamboozled many a reader with sneaky comments ending in a reference to a famous pro-wrestling match called Hell in a Cell. A Reddit admin with the username "internetmallcop" posted a thread on Tuesday announcing the experiment, calling it a "new feature to support u/shittymorph." Anyone in the group can now tip shittymorph for content he posts in his own subreddit.
A "tip" option appears below shittymorph's content. Clicking on it opens a window with suggested $3, $5 or $10 tips, or the choice to select another amount. You can input your credit card number directly into the window. The payments are handled by processor Stripe. Shittymorph responded to the admin post by saying he is "super grateful and honored" to be picked for the launch and beta testing. As of this writing Wednesday morning, the comment shows a $75.00 tip total in green above it. Internetmallcop explained in a comment how the tipping breaks out: "If you were to tip $100, about $78.5 goes to u/shittymorph, $18.5 to Reddit, and $3 to Stripe." It's unclear if Reddit plans to expand tipping beyond this experiment, and if it might extend to all users, or just certain content creators. As for why Shittymorph was chosen to test the feature, it "may be due in part to the Hell in a Cell writer's infamy and extensive fan base on the site," reports CNET. "Shittymorph's intriguing backstory to his creative Reddit comment efforts stem from the tragic loss of his father. He's also known for occasionally posting about his rescue dog Scooby."
A "tip" option appears below shittymorph's content. Clicking on it opens a window with suggested $3, $5 or $10 tips, or the choice to select another amount. You can input your credit card number directly into the window. The payments are handled by processor Stripe. Shittymorph responded to the admin post by saying he is "super grateful and honored" to be picked for the launch and beta testing. As of this writing Wednesday morning, the comment shows a $75.00 tip total in green above it. Internetmallcop explained in a comment how the tipping breaks out: "If you were to tip $100, about $78.5 goes to u/shittymorph, $18.5 to Reddit, and $3 to Stripe." It's unclear if Reddit plans to expand tipping beyond this experiment, and if it might extend to all users, or just certain content creators. As for why Shittymorph was chosen to test the feature, it "may be due in part to the Hell in a Cell writer's infamy and extensive fan base on the site," reports CNET. "Shittymorph's intriguing backstory to his creative Reddit comment efforts stem from the tragic loss of his father. He's also known for occasionally posting about his rescue dog Scooby."
Now it's just straight up e-begging.
so this provides shit morph food
So everything is a micro transaction now? and the companies are skimming a little off the top?
slashdot tips when?
More than 20% of the tip is siphoned off by the middlemen. Fuck that.
working with some of the old reddit techs as a contractor. This was way before spez, by the way. Even then, there were ramblings about adopting a tip system. Of course, this was still back before social media website had found ways to monetize by selling data, so it seemed like a desperate grasp that would never work. I'd only be venturing a guess, but the deciding moment this all changed was probably in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table.
WTF did I just read? I feel old today. Back to my Model M.
Tipping is for cows. Silly cows. Reddit users say moo. moo. moo!
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Between $6 avocado toast or Starbucks coffee, kickstarter, and stupid crap like tipping people for bloviating on the web, I'm starting to doubt that millennials are struggling quite as much a they claim.
Ps: where is my tip for this puissant wisdom?
-Styopa
good content.
Are people still using reddit? I have 3 or 4 subs I look at a couple times a week but I haven't posted anything there in 8 years/
How many times does it have to happen over and over and over again before people realize, as soon as you monetize a situation, every slick-talking scumbag crawls out of the darkness try and get that money. and any credibility for what someone says goes right out the window because , now it's not about sharing ideas and discussing them. it's about whatever panders to the paycheck.
I stopped logging in and now just use it to cruise the most popular stories. My stress level went way down and I spend far less time there.
Life is better without Reddit.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
But your reddit servers are located there.
That summary gave me cancer.
Hi, I'm Bruce Perens. If you know me, you know that I don't usually post anything entitled "WTF". But really, "WTF"? Why would anyone mind want to encourage this person and his documented behavior? It sounds like tipping an anonymous coward on Slashdot. Which might make sense if it's tipping them over the edge of a tall building. But really, WTF?
Bruce Perens.
Because there isn't incentive enough for Reddit users to come up with the most intricate lies to get as much upvote karma as possible, we will now offer monetary incentives for the most interesting (aka fabricated) content. Fakes news levels will sky rocket, fake personal stories, fake pitty stories, fake everything all to get as much traffic, and as much freely donated money, as possible.
You probably weren't expecting a serious response to a post entitled "WTF". But then again, you're a self-confessed neophyte of alphaghetti grunticons, tip-toeing tentatively into a Brave New World of soon-to-shatter Spanish dominion.
As all pre-modern narratives do, this story begins at the beginning.
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Once upon a time there was a coyote. Legend has it that he was a solitary, Edisonian ne'er-do-well. But this is not entirely true. Solitary, yes. Somewhat crackpotty, indubitably. Persistent to a fault, yes yes yes. But ne'er-do-well, not so much. He was, in actual fact, an extraordinarily well-healed Prairie Dog Erectus of independent means (with lusciously plump toes and chubby cheek-flews to die for). He had—by this juncture in his crotchety life trajectory—two lucrative gigs going. For one thing, in his identity as sole proprietor and chief bottle washer of Perpetual Ventures Unlimited, he practically commanded his own private Pony Express to the U.S. Patent office. While he had never actually commercialized a single patent himself, some of his patents had been snapped up on the open market, to his great advantage. In particular, his patent for loosely affixing a length of string to a short, barbed cylinder had set him up in the lap of arid luxury for a coon's age. (Not that he ever found out, but this patent had been voted Troll Patent runner up for Scoop-of-the-Year honours in the secretive Annual Regards Gala, more commonly known as ARG). As for his second reliable gig, he was also contracted to provide general landscaping services for one Georgia O'Keefe, which involved a phenomenal amount of taxidermy, mostly in attendance of giant vats of boiling vinegar to scour skulls without number to a luminous Pepsodent sheen, which more than provided enough gas money for all the Acme Corporation Pemmican Mouse Paste a coyote could possibly want (one hasn't lived until one spreads pemmus over lembas).
Indeed, a lot more pemmus paste than a coyote could possibly want. And there lies the problem.
His chosen Arizonian abode was stark and beautiful, but not exactly a teeming reserve. If you had an insatiable tooth throbbing under your gelatinous flew for a glutinous drumstick (or two), the available options were thin on the ground. In fact, your options were immediately whittled down to just one highly migratory specimen of the delectable drumstick-dervish.
Nobody really knows why the Road Runner was quite so migratory. One rumour has it that he subcontracted to the Pony Express to handle one mysteriously busy route to the middle of nowhere which simply did not economically justify an entire pony procession. If so, it was probably at most a side gig. More likely, this particular Road Runner had a complicated double (or quadruple) life, in the manner of Catch Me If You Can–cum–Enemies, A Love Story. In any event, his peregrinations between A and B were toot toot Teutonic in their ineluctable inevitability.
One fine Saturday—or as Wile E. termed it, Eve of Sunday Rotisserie Spit—the Acme Amadrone spied Wile E. occupying a high vantage point, surveying his dusty domain with an outstretched compass and straightedge. "Ah! My new bowsaw!" said Wile E., practically bouncing up and down on all eight plush toes. And of course, you have to try it out, ASAP, before the torn packaging so much as flutters to rest on the ground below, so Wile E. immediately kneels down and begins sawing for all he's worth. "A fine saw indeed!" Wile E. exclaimed, as the timber beneath his feet feel peeled away in much the same way as would a recently unsupported brick. Still safely ensconced in his customary 0.99998 gee bubble of upward acceleration Wile E. ostentatiously bumpclaps green sawdust from his paws in alternate ham strokes, while giving his forecoat a subtle but effective shimmy. This is surely a fine new addition to his customary arsenal, though with one small snag: there's nary a tree to be seen
a group dedicated to the man who has memorably bamboozled many a reader with sneaky comments ending in a reference to a famous pro-wrestling match called Hell in a Cell. A Reddit admin with the username "internetmallcop" posted a thread on Tuesday announcing the experiment, calling it a "new feature to support u/shittymorph." Anyone in the group can now tip shittymorph for content he posts in his own subreddit.
Even as someone who posts to ./ from work, I feel somehow completely justified in saying that some people have way too much time on their hands ...
a new way to launder money for propaganda subreddits like r/politics. "Oh, isn't this comment declaring AOC a misunderstood genius just marvelous? He're a $20 tip, random user I've never met" *wink wink*.
Is this just a clever way to get everyone's money? Do the rollout and make it so everyone can tip and be tipped, get their bank details and permission to debit/credit them, wait six months till its at peak and everyone who will sign up has. Then rinse all the accounts and do a runner. Clever girls.
Wanna buy a shirt?
https://www.redbubble.com/people/stealthfinger/shop?asc=u
see: https://www.reddit.com/r/tippr...
Reddit doesn't control it or get a cut. Works well.
My God, it's Full of Source!
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