• papalonian@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    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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      10 days ago

      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.

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        10 days ago

        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.