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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."
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.
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
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.
Here's a tip: Slashdot is garbage now; I only come to laugh at the crazy people.
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
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.
In Soviet Russia, crazy people laugh at YOU!
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
I'm on reddit for almost 10 years and don't understand what this is all about...
"Science will win because it works." - Stephen Hawking