• collude
    +4

    Reddit gold doesn't provide any direct financial benefits to the recipients; rather just a slightly enhanced feature set.

    Any time referral codes can be translated into actual money it always brings out the worst in spamming and general sleaziness. People stop caring about growing a community or sharing meaningful content but will just chase referral codes and anything they can do to build their pyramid.

    • drunkenninja
      +7

      Going to jump in for a second here. I'm a little lost in regards to why it would promote spam and general sleaziness?

      There is no reason why these referral codes would be posted on snapzu as anyone on the site is essentially already a member, and if someone does post their tribe invite link(s) they would be down voted right away... those posts will never see the light of day. As for the spam, I'm not sure I understand your concern. What spam? The rev-share incentives don't focus on content created, so there would be no ads and thus no reason to spam anything. Its clearly stated that this is only in reference to sharing a tribe related invite link so that chiefs can build up their own tribes and at the same time earn a few bucks. Maybe I'm missing something here, but this seems like a solid approach to rewarding tribe chiefs for growing their communities and at the same time snapzu as a whole. Honestly, at this point the only thing that this place needs is more members and more specialized tribes.

      • collude
        +4

        I think my post to nickcobb outlines most of my concerns. I just wanted to touch on that if they really want to increase membership then maybe it's time to drop the invite only status.

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    • funhonestdude
      +5

      I'm sure there will be guidelines, rules, and examples in place. The last thing we want is to spam and piss off other internet communities.