Community Points allow members of Reddit communities to own a piece of their community, earn rewards for quality contributions, and unlock special features.
In all seriousness: I actually hate how much threads can get spammed by the new gif feature gimmick. They almost never add anything of value to the discussion and take up a ton of space. Slide for Reddit doesn’t support them at all and I feel like I’ve missed nothing.
Some of the scarier points. They seem to be adding power users, whose votes on polls are weighted by their community points:
Not that reddit isn’t already easy enough to game, but if this is successful, they might use it to change default sorts too.
Special privileges for power users:
They’re bloating the eth blockchain by doing these as eth contracts:
Please hold your CIA ID card up to the webcam for poweruser registration.
Sorry, only CIA approved accounts can post reaction gifs and custom emojis now.
Eh, both of those serve no real purpose anyway.
In all seriousness: I actually hate how much threads can get spammed by the new gif
featuregimmick. They almost never add anything of value to the discussion and take up a ton of space. Slide for Reddit doesn’t support them at all and I feel like I’ve missed nothing.