Apparently, this has been around for ages:

May 28 2020: consensys.net/…/everything-you-need-to-know-about…

May 15 2020: old.reddit.com/…/could_the_admins_please_explain_…

IA History: web.archive.org/web/…/community-points

Discussions of proliferating it and fantasies about the resulting weird exploitation it will enable have occurred as well:

March 17 2023: old.reddit.com/…/when_community_points_are_introd…

July 16 2023: old.reddit.com/…/which_subreddits_need_to_be_the_…

Apparently, they also tried to do this before, almost 9 years ago:

www.engadget.com/2014-12-19-reddit-notes.html

techcrunch.com/…/reddit-announces-redditnotes-a-w…

theverge.com/…/reddit-notes-announced-give-5-mill…

slate.com/…/what-reddit-notes-are-their-history-a…

old.reddit.com/r/blog/…/announcing_reddit_notes/

old.reddit.com/…/what_happened_to_reddit_notes/

fortune.com/…/reddit-notes-is-not-going-to-happen…

Kinda puts things in a new light. Ruining the site has always been the plan.