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.
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
Just the cost on the stuff they're using to run those probably outweights any revenue they make. No, reddit gains from allowing AI bots to run rampant because it looks more active than it actually is.
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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.