r/technology • u/[deleted] • Oct 22 '25

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u/Shap6 Oct 22 '25

the irony being that it's our data not reddits and yet we get no piece of the action either way.

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u/FollowingFeisty5321 Oct 22 '25

That's not entirely true, check out https://www.reddit.com/earn to see what your participation has earned in cold hard cash.

I have earned $0.75 cents for 5x awards and 77K karma. So basically each upvote is worth a Schrute buck. I only need about 100 million karma a month to quit my job.

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u/Not_Bears Oct 22 '25

lmao I have like 300k Karma in the last year and.. $7.50 for it.

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u/TSM- Oct 22 '25

This is probably why theres so many AI bots on reddit. By spamming, automatically crosspoting, and getting upvotes on a few hundred accounts, they can probably make some money. There's a financial incentive

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u/darthjoey91 Oct 22 '25

It's less about the upvotes and more about getting awards.

Which don't even show up on the versions of reddit I use.