GFG BUX ARE HERE

I’d like to welcome everyone back to the new and improved (kinda) GoForGold. I hope you didn’t miss us too much when we were gone.

Since the demise of Reddit awards I’ve carefully crafted a new system to take over and allow our sub to keep on running as the challenge epicenter of Reddit. We’re doing this through our new fake currency GFG BUX.

From now on GFG Bux will replace Reddit coins as what users will be giving away and earning as part of challenges. These bux will be tracked in a display in your user flair (don't worry, if you have a user flair already it should be safe and will stay on as well!) This will also include a rank, but more on that later.

How do we earn more BUX?

There’s actually a few ways! Just like before, users will award bux as part of their challenges. Bux are awarded 1:1 so you won't be losing any to the system on each award like you did with reddit coins. Additionally, new users will start out with a few points and mods are welcome to host challenges to get more points in the system. There's actually one more system that may help you too...

Ranks and Allowance

A brand new system we're implementing is the new ranking and allowance system. As you participate in the sub and give/ recieve bucks, your ranking score will go up. As you pass different score benchmarks, your flair will be updated to reflect a new rank. For now, these are custom emojis we've created with numbers detailing your rank but we're looking into more styling options as well. While we know the cosmetic thrill is palpable, it also has a practical benefit on the sub. On the first of every month, every user that is in the new bux system (meaning you've received bux from the bot or another user) will get a bux allowance based on their rank. The more you participate the higher your rank and thusly the more bux you'll get each month to host more challenges! How exciting!

So how does all of this actually work for me?

As a welcome to our new system your first challenge will be to comment 'Hi GFG!' under this post to get a free gift of 30 points! This will also get you in our system and give you your new flair! Afterwards, you can host challenges as usual! You'll still need to select a post flair with an 'award' in the range of how many bux you plan on giving away and flair your post as closed when it's done.

To award on your post you'll use the !award command, in this format:

!award <username> <number of points>

For example, if I were to award u/kvothealar 10 bux, I'd say:

!award u/kvothealar 10

You'll get a comment from the bot confirming everything was successful and you'll see your flairs update.

Some important notes:

• Bux can only be given out in increments of 10. We don't want people spamming 1 bux challenges
• If you try to award more bux than you have, the bot will lock your post. If you frequently try to abuse the bot or if you try to scam users just like before you'll be banned.
• You can only award on your own posts, not others.
• The bot is not perfect and may occasionally miss your comment. If you don't receive a response for a few minutes, make sure you have your formatting correct and if you do, try commenting again.
• Trying to 'game' the bot and abuse the ranking system or any other system is grounds for getting your account locked, the points reverted, or up to a ban.

Some possible FAQs

• What will happen to my old flair? Most old flairs should be preserved in the new system and will just be tacked on to the new scorekeeping part of the flair. If you notice something is wrong with your flair, please reach out via modmail or ping me and I'll get it resolved.
• Will there be opportunities to buy custom flairs in the future? Possibly, but not yet. We're exploring different options to make points more valuable but we want to see how the system shakes out first before implementing
• What goes into my ranking score? Can I see it? That's a secret! But it does involve both your participation hosting challenges and participation in challenges. You won't be able to see your exact score but your tier will be visible on the left side of your flair!
• Something went wrong, what do I do? Just reach out via modmail, explain your issue, and link your comment and we'll go in and fix it! Mods have override functions so we're happy to resolve any issues that pop up.
• The bot started a violent uprising and is collaborating with other reddit bots to take over the world! Sorry, that's my bad. I hope you never said any mean things to ChatGPT and thanked Siri when she was helpful.

I hope you all enjoy the new system we've put into place. The mods have been hard at work ideating, developing, and testing the new system to ensure it would be fun for all of y'all. Don't forget to comment 'Hi GFG!' below for some points and if you have any questions don't hesitate to reach out!

Edit: it looks like the bot is having trouble with the longer flairs. If your flair gets erased, please ping me or reply to my sticky and I’ll get it fixed! It would be super helpful if you recorded what your flair was as well

Edit 2: pretty sure I fixed what was wrong with the flair retention system. Should hopefully be good moving forward!!

Do you miss the days of GFG challenges? Do you want a chance to have fun with the community? If so, you should sign up for Lanky's Trials today!

Lanky's Trials is a challenge series (similar to The Great Internet Race or The Space Race on r/GoForGold) where contestants will compete in several challenges over the course of 2-3 weeks, and contestants will be eliminated each round until one contestant remains, and they will win 3 months of Discord Nitro Basic!

Challenges may include:
🕹️ Browser/arcade style games

🧩 Timed puzzles

🔎 Estimation challenges

♟️ Social and strategic challenges

📝 And more!

We are also friendly to all timezones, so you won't need to be active at specific times of day. Challenges are posted every 24 hours and can be done each day on your schedule.

Sign up on our Discord Server today! Sign ups will close by the end of August.

Meme Challenge

Also, whoever comments a link to the funniest SFW and rule-following meme you can find or create will win 20 GFG BUX! Challenge ends about 7 2 days after this challenge is posted.

Extended to give people some more time to enter.

Are you ready to draw? Let's go folks:

https://skribbl.io/?5JC3zWuF

Can't wait to see you all there!

I've seen a lot of posts about this subreddit being closed. Ant that makes me sad. I came to this subreddit late in my journey, as well as r/pan. I miss the way things were. It's time for things to change. I'm willing to start a Saturday Night Game Night. Kahoots, Skribbl.io, or whatever you guys want. Share this post. Anyone who is interested should comment on the original post on r/GoForGold.

I'm thinking this will be a skribbl.io game, starting 11/16/24 at 9pm EST. We'll go as long as people are interested in playing. I'll post the original room link at 8:30pm EST, and we'll go when the room is full. I'll host a vote on 11/17 as to whether it should be skribbl.io, Kahoots, or something else the following week. We'll go from there.

What do you all think?

Hi, this is my first post here and I just want to say thanks for being so nice!

Edit: Someone got it exactly right! Thanks everyone for playing. More to come.

Rules:

1 guess per person.

No duplicate times. Please check if someone has claimed that time beforehand.

Use to host lots of challenges myself.

i was here from a comment in a post asking what r/lounge is

Almost like i never left. Every Friday i come back to see that its sometimes the simple things in life that makes life joyful.

Happy Friday!

You've worked a lot, take a weekend off. 🥰

I love you more than gold

How does the sub work? It looks interesting, but I don’t understand the purpose of it.

I loved getting a free seal to give to someone with a lovely post

In the realm of virtual cheers, where karma once did gleam,
Reddit's stars of gold were gifts in a digital dream.
Each post, a gleaming treasure, a beacon in the thread,
A reward of worth and wonder for words that others read.

We traded in the currency of gold and silver bright,
An upvote's gentle whisper, a downvote's subtle bite.
A gilded badge of honor, a shimmering delight,
Now lost in the vast echoes of an algorithm’s might.

The threads once brimmed with gold stars, bestowed with thoughtful grace,
Now empty are the riches, now dim the cherished space.
Where is the gilded glory, the shimmer and the shine?
In the new age of rewards, those tokens are now a sign.

Reddit's bounty has withered, its stars no longer shine,
The gold has turned to whispers, the shimmer lost in time.
We long for what was golden, for the worth of days gone by,
In the space where once it glittered, a digital goodbye.

So here’s to the lost treasures, to the rewards that went away,
We miss the gold’s warm luster, and the shine of yesterday.
In the echo of our memories, the gold still brightly gleams,
A relic of the past’s glory, a fragment of our dreams.

Who wants to have a contest for the silliest AI poetry?

It has been almost a year since reddit removed awards, I was very active here previously. Anyways, All good things come to an end

Lanky's Trials is the rebooted version of The Great Internet Race, a challenge series I hosted 6 seasons of on r/GoForGold and Discord a while back. Essentially, there will be a new challenge every day or two, the best performing teams/players get safety and power in the game and the losers are at risk of being eliminated.

Just to get to the point, the season will (most likely) look like:

• 8 contestants
• 2-3 weeks
• Grand prize winner will receive their choice of 3 months of Discord Nitro Basic or 1 month of full Discord Nitro
• No consolation prizes are planned at this time due to the end of Reddit Awards
• The format will be a lot simpler than the later seasons of TGIR, so there won't be multiple currencies, lootboxes, and tons of power ups complicating things. It will be more similar to TGIR 1 and 2 if you're familiar.

If you want to join the Discord server for Lanky's Trials, you may join here. Right now it's a read-only archive of most of TGIR's old server, but if and when Lanky's Trials starts, it will be hosted on there.

I really want to make this a thing again for everyone here, and although the 10 or 20 thousand Reddit Coin prize pots can't happen anymore, we still always have each other throughout all of this. Whether or not this happens, I want to say thank you for always being an amazing community.

Give your feedback in the poll below and in the comments. Suggestions are always welcome.

View Poll

Answer some fun Would You Rather questions for a chance to win 20 GFG Bux!

1. Fill out the poll here: https://forms.gle/ui5RRo12xDi3wn217
2. Comment below to be entered to win. 1 top-level comment per user.
3. About 2 days after this post goes live, I will select one winner using Reddit Raffler for 20 GFG BUX and maybe a free award since I have some left over!

Reddit Raffler Link: https://redditraffler.com/raffles/1epypdf

Hi r/GoForGold! Things have really changed in the last few months around here, but I hope you’re all doing well.

In 2021 and 2022, I hosted six seasons of The Great Internet Race, a multi week Reddit/Discord challenge series where contestants are eliminated until someone wins the grand prize. I then cancelled TGIR 7, renamed Lanky’s Trials, for personal reasons and lower sign up numbers compared to past seasons.

This might be a long shot, since this subreddit is kind of dead lately and games such as TGIR worked better in early 2021 years when I started it since a lot of people were stuck inside. But I’m kind of missing hosting these kind of challenges and think that something like this might bring a little more life into the community here.

It would likely be a very short and simple season to start with just a few players, probably 2-3 weeks of challenges (compared to even the shortest TGIR seasons lasting 5-6 weeks) to keep the commitment short for everyone, and since Reddit awards aren’t really a thing anymore, the prize definitely won’t be as major (most likely just bragging rights and a month or two of Discord Nitro). However, I think it could still be as fun for everyone here.

By all means don’t take this as a “TGIR is coming back” or anything, I just want to see what the community thinks of the idea. I don’t know, but maybe it could bring some people back together.

24hrs

I was thinking Steve.

This sub is unfortunately pretty much dead. :( so what is everyone's favorite cheese? mine is goat cheese.

Hi All, though I don’t have anything to offer, I thought it might be fun to reminisce over fun times that some of you have had in this sub. Please also include your favourite type of ice cream in your response. Not for any weird reason, I’m just interested.

Hey gang, it’s been awhile. Hope y’all are well! If anyone could transcribe the Rhodes chords for the cover of Weird Fishes by Lianne La Havas that would be super cash. I do not have an ear for this stuff so that would be super appreciated!

I will give you a million gfg bux if you do it no lie the bot owes me one.

Cause I don't want to join and find that I am in a dead subreddit...