I'm not even mildly annoyed.

I hate you!

^(<3 tho)

I know me too lol. They must be from awards but I did think how annoyed I’d be if I had paid for them.

Yeah, everyone knows that rewards are nothing and actual karma points are everything.

edit on your edit: exactly!

Coins were pretty much for purchasing awards. The coins were bought with cash, came from having reddit premium, or came from an award.

why not change all awards to "fuck spez" awards.

I love the statements "Emotions are running high..." Yeah, no shit. There are no shortages of emotional reactions.

Are you really naive enough to think you, or any significant number of legitimate redditors, are going to see even a penny of the money that the *'contributor program'* pays out?

I would quite happily wager that a number significantly higher than 50% of the posts on Reddit are made by bots or farming accounts. It has reached a point in the last year or so that has overwhelmed smaller or otherwise niche subs with recycled, generic or just plain reposted content to the point there is nothing else posted at all because it gets drowned out by those accounts. Larger subs are not immune to it either, several of those posts have gotten to the front page despite being called out. And have been flooded with equally generic or stolen comments (literally copy/pastes of other comments in the post).

Most of those accounts very fit nicely into the eligible accounts criteria Reddit will allegedly use should the program happen.

So, in the end, the only people who are going to benefit from this program are the people running bot farms, malicious or otherwise.