Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts
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Sunsetting Secret Santa and Reddit Gifts
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#2Top comment nails it:
> So you took over someone elses project years ago, made some money off of it and then killed it. Yikes.
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#3Hopefully, maybe, the community might come together and crowdsource a new Reddit Secret Santa that's run by the Reddit community rather than the Reddit admins.
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#4Hopefully, maybe, the community might come together and crowdsource a new Reddit Secret Santa that's run by the Reddit community rather than the Reddit admins.
That's literally how it started until they stole it. Same with reddit coins/reddit silver.
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#5It lost any charm it had as soon as it started having sponsors, maybe 5 years ago? I don't remember exactly.
Before that it was the community doing something fun together. After that it was just yet another advertising opportunity and I noped right out.
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#6Hopefully, maybe, the community might come together and crowdsource a new Reddit Secret Santa that's run by the Reddit community rather than the Reddit admins.
Seems to be already happening at https://www.reddit.com/r/newsecretsanta/
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#7Years ago I participated in this. Someone sent me a beautiful programming book, but I failed to purchase and send a gift for my recipient because I was a stupid, selfish kid. I still feel horrible about it to this day.
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#8Hopefully, maybe, the community might come together and crowdsource a new Reddit Secret Santa that's run by the Reddit community rather than the Reddit admins.
That's literally how it started until they stole it. Same with reddit coins/reddit silver.
Everything of value related to reddit comes from the users. The users create the content, they organize by voting on it and creating subreddits, the users even moderate the content. Even good ideas come from the users. Reddit, meanwhile, just adds on more and more bizarre features. They have avatars now? How about a chat system that nobody uses? Want us to email you a hundred times a day? etc.
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#9Didn't the idea start on Something Awful or another site like it? Do they still run their secret Santa?
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's literally how it started until they stole it. Same with reddit coins/reddit silver.
Everything of value related to reddit comes from the users. The users create the content, they organize by voting on it and creating subreddits, the users even moderate the content. Even good ideas come from the users. Reddit, meanwhile, just adds on more and more bizarre features. They have avatars now? How about a chat system that nobody uses? Want us to email you a hundred times a day? etc.
> Everything of value related to reddit comes from the users.
Truth.
It's amazing how much goodwill Reddit had as just a "dumb host" for forumlike communities, before things like the comically bad single-page-app redesign and the stupid decision in the OP article.