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minus-square@zabil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoI cannot work out what the benefit is to them of doing this. Someone somewhere has paid for those awards. Is it because you can get gifted premium and not pay for it yourself? It’s like the company had a collective aneurysm.
minus-square@_cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoThe only thing I can think of is awarding a comment with gold means it can never be deleted. They’re probably trying to mass delete everything that makes them and that fuckwad u/spez look bad.
I cannot work out what the benefit is to them of doing this.
Someone somewhere has paid for those awards. Is it because you can get gifted premium and not pay for it yourself?
It’s like the company had a collective aneurysm.
The only thing I can think of is awarding a comment with gold means it can never be deleted. They’re probably trying to mass delete everything that makes them and that fuckwad u/spez look bad.