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Re:Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits ... by Shivetya on Friday February 28, 2014 @02:59PM (#7321070)
Is reddit gold all that much? I could imagine a surge when it came out, but how about ongoing?
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Re:Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits ... by mahranch on Friday February 28, 2014 @03:02PM (#7321087)
http://www.reddit.com/gilded

You can see "gilded" comments in real time. Gilded is when one user gives a month of reddit gold to another user (it doesn't include people buying it for themselves).

I'd say it's most definitely a success.

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Re:Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits ... by nandhp on Friday February 28, 2014 @03:16PM (#7321165)
They have a "gold goal" progress meter at the bottom of the homepage sidebar. I assume this is approximately "amount of gold purchases needed to keep us from losing money today" -- it's usually above 80%; yesterday it was 107%.
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Re:Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits ... by njr123 on Friday February 28, 2014 @07:24PM (#7322460)
About $50k a month.

http://gold.reddit-stream.com

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Re:Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits ... by rhc2104 on Saturday March 01, 2014 @03:21AM (#7323629)
That page says, "These numbers only include gifted gold"
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Re:Reddit to Give 10% of Its 2014 Ad Revenue to Non-Profits ... by theknown99 on Saturday March 01, 2014 @02:40AM (#7323546)
So about 2% of their hosting bill...
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