Reddit’s Contributor Program could earn you real money for your Reddit karma [Android Authority]. This mirror’s Twitter’s experiment to pay select top contributors [Washington Post].

This would just accelerate Reddit’s plunge into “bots upvoting karma farming repost bots”.

Reddit not announcing the replacement for awards/coins yet totally makes sense if it will be something like this or crypto related, though they’re just uselessly kicking the backlash can down the road.