[SERIOUS] Sunsetting Community Points Beta and Special Memberships

Hi r/CryptoCurrency,

I’m u/cozy__sheets and I work on our Community team, supporting products that focus on subreddits, like Community Points.

TL;DR: We recently made the decision to sunset the Community Points beta, including Special Memberships, by November 8th. At that point, you’ll also no longer see Points in your Reddit Vault nor earn any more Points in your communities. Though we saw some future opportunities for Community Points, there was no path to scale it broadly across the platform.

The corporate context

The regulatory environment has added to scalability limitations. Though the moderators and communities that supported Community Points have been incredible partners - as it’s evolved, the product is no longer set up to scale.

We still love the idea that inspired Community Points. Specifically, finding better ways to improve community governance and empower communities and contributions. Part of why we’re winding down Community Points is because we’re able to scale several products that accomplish what the Community Points program was trying to accomplish, while being easier to adopt and understand.

One example is the new Contributor Program, actively rolling out, which will give eligible users the ability to earn cash based on the karma and gold they’ve earned on qualifying contributions. Other examples include shipped features that were originally part of the Community Points beta that we believe any community should have access to, like subreddit karma and gifs.

But why now?

As we started rolling out an improved reddit.com experience, we realized that without an outsized commitment to resources, Community Points wouldn’t migrate well to that updated experience.

Time and efforts previously spent on Community Points can now be directed to more scalable programs - like the Contributor Program - which we believe can provide value to more redditors.

More info

The Community Points product, including Special Memberships, will be sunset by November 8th. At that point, you’ll also no longer see Points in your Reddit Vault nor earn any more Points in your communities. Points in community tanks will be burned by the end of the year.

Thank you all again for the deep involvement in this unique experience in your communities.

There were significant learnings from Community Points and the feedback many of you gave, that we’re now actively bringing forward to more communities and redditors. In other words: we’ll continue the spirit of Points by further investing in empowering communities and rewarding contributions.

We’ll be around for any immediate questions or feedback you may have.