>First, many don’t appreciate the clutter from awards (50+ awards right now, but who’s counting?) and all the steps that go into actually awarding content. Second, redditors want awarded content to be more valuable to the recipient.

So, nuclear option, of course.

The "clutter" of rewards is something recipients take great pride in. I have never, ever, been privy to a convo where a user griped about there not being enough payoff for an award that was GIFTED.

The "steps" involved hitting the "award gold" button, and being taken to a very standard e-commerce checkout process. What "steps" are there to complain about?

my 12 plus years on Reddit says this is fishy. Awards slow the doomscroll down, is what I suspect the problem is.