Reddit considers letting users pay for self-promotion

A Reddit moderator proposed having content makers pay for putting links to their own content on Reddit Friday morning. The post, which went up on the the moderator news sub-thread, had a full proposal based on discussions that Reddit moderators have had about how to handle self-promotion on the popular forum. The argument behind the proposal is basically that self-promotional links are fine, but there should be some clear way of delineating them from “organic” posts, and ideally finding a way to thread the needle between users who want to see the content and outright spamming by websites eager to get more clicks via Reddit.