noun, verb
Internet Slang
gilding
· noun, verb · internet
Spending real money to award Reddit Gold (or Platinum) to a comment you loved.
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Definitions
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The act of awarding paid Reddit Gold (or later Platinum) to a comment or post. Functioned as a flashy public tip — you were literally buying a stranger premium membership because their joke landed that hard. Reddit retired the Coins/Awards system in 2023, so the term is now mostly nostalgic.
“Took my one upvote and ran, but somebody actually gilded the top reply.”
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gilding In A Sentence
Took my one upvote and ran, but somebody actually gilded the top reply.
Origin & Usage
From Reddit's Reddit Gold premium award, launched 2010. To 'gild' a comment was to spend a few dollars attaching the gold icon and a month of premium membership to it.
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