• papalonian@lemmy.world
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        9 天前

        I never got the hate over this. I agree that “pay this company $3 because some guy made a funny joke” doesn’t make a ton of sense, but the 2(?) times someone got me gold, I said thank you… just feels like acknowledging a compliment.

        • i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          9 天前

          A long, long time ago, I made an exception on my Adblocker for Reddit, since their ads were specifically unobtrusive and I liked the site a lot.

          Gold made the ads go away while still supporting the site. I got so much ad-free browsing because of dick jokes.

          • papalonian@lemmy.world
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            9 天前

            Yup. I was the same way. I also wanted to see what the lounge was all about, until the first time I got gold and saw it was just a circle jerk about… Getting gold. Dunno what I expected.

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        9 天前

        Multiple times I’ve had the most heavily downvoted posts in a given community. Maybe I shouldn’t brag about that? 😉

        But once I also had the most heavily upvoted too, so… it kinda just is what it is, at the end of the day? 😯