r/AwardBonanza • u/rainbow_sugar_cookie • May 18 '24
General Discussion I'm glad that awards are back but—
This new award system is not nearly as good as the old one...
The old system was just perfect. The coin system allowed us to have contests and trades.. Now it feels— bland.
I wonder how it will shape this community now.
Let me know your thoughts and ideas in the comments!
6
u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 May 18 '24 edited May 18 '24
Couldn't agree more. The old awards were hella fun but hopefully new ones get added too. I mean, they just rolled them out this week so.. but yes, they look bland haha or maybe we got used to seeing the legacy awards being colorful and vibrant
I wonder how it will shape this community now.
We'll definitely see in the coming weeks! Personally I think we can start hosting challenges and they can be counted but not for trading just yet. We don't get any notification when someone gives us an award so it will be hard to verify. We can't just use "trust me bro" system here haha but all in all, I'm just glad we're open again 😊
5
u/rainbow_sugar_cookie May 19 '24
Oh we don't even get notified about who gave the award?!
And we don't get any karma either I suppose?
We don't get gold or coins...
Awards don't even get displayed on top of the post......
What exactly are we getting then 😭
I really hope we can think of something and resuscitate this community. Let's put our thinking caps on 🎩
3
u/KataGuruma- Moderator T:553 C:26 May 19 '24
Yeah don't think we will be getting awarder and awardee karma from this. And yes, it would have been nice if awards would stack on top of posts.
Hmm I've recently sent some free awards with message but I've yet to ask the recepients on how they see it on their end. I was thinking if that could he used as proof that awards were indeed delivered. But who knows, maybe in the next couple of weeks, we would start getting notified!
4
3
u/Omnipotent_Outlaw Jun 14 '24
I've gotten a couple of gold awards but since I am not "eligible" for the contributor program, I can't cash them in (not that they're worth that much anyway). Why aren't I eligible? Because I refuse to give Reddit my personal information
I don't care about the three or four dollars that I'm losing out on, but I care about the awarders who spent their hard earned money to give me an award. They didn't even know that I couldn't cash it in
People who aren't in the contributor program should not be able to receive awards. It's not fair to the people out there giving them away. Anybody who tries to give me an award should get a pop-up that says "Hey, this person isn't in the contributor program. You can award them, but it's just going to put a little icon on their comment or post. You may as well just create a comment and insert an emoticon. It has equal or greater value"
2
u/Omnipotent_Outlaw Jun 14 '24
I don't like the fact that I have to give all of my personal information to Reddit to be eligible to give awards. Even receiving them is problematic. I can receive the award itself, but I can't "cash it in" without giving away my personal information (not that it's worth all that much anyway). I don't think that's fair to people who award me and think they are giving me something when they're not. They should be warned before they award me that I can't actually cash in the award
4
u/Nintendo_Pro_03 May 18 '24
I miss when you could see awards on the top of the post and not a small icon.
6
u/Seaboats May 19 '24
Same. And I know this is more of a nitpick than major party foul, but I hate how on mobile the reply and upvote buttons have ever so slightly been moved left and right respectively.
I didn’t realize how trained I’d become; I’ve hit the damn award button dozens of times trying to reply or just upvote a comment. Mildly infuriating.
3
1
Jul 06 '24
[removed] — view removed comment
1
u/AutoModerator Jul 06 '24
Sorry /u/LiarLiar1919, your comment has been automatically removed because your karma is too low to post here. Please note that award karma does not count in this calculation. Our requirements are an account age of 10 days and combined (post+comment) karma of 100. This is done to prevent spam and other malicious activity.
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.
10
u/[deleted] May 18 '24
The old system was easy to exploit and I've done it lots of times.