Apes groom each other to make each other feel valued. It's a big factor in their health.
So do humans.
Even online.
The equivalent of grooming online is Likes, Upvotes and Awards.
This means we have the power to encourage and nurture people who post on reddit if we give out awards. It's grooming them. (In the primate sense not any other!).
If you post on reddit you will over time get reddit points which can only be spent on cosmetic "upgrades" and an increasing array of awards. These awards can be used to help make other posters feel valued.
I realised earlier on that I had 300 points to spend and no plan to spend them on anything. So I looked at the awards and the cheapest one was 20 points. So I gave 15 posters an award, mostly in the /rveganuk subreddit.
Picking the cheapest makes sense because no one knows what any of these awards signify and people probably can't differentiate between an expensive one and a cheap one. In fact the cheap ones look actually quite nice.
Here's how to spend your reddit points:
- Find a post you like.
- Click Give Award.
- Pick the Premium tab.
- Pick a cheap one.
(At the time of writing Premium is where the cheapest ones are but if you're spending a load of points it's worth checking first if there are any cheaper).
So there you go: make some of the people whose posts you like feel appreciated and valued. Upvote them too.
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