That’s not how it works though. The awards are money already given to Reddit. It doesn’t matter if you use them or not.

If you don’t want to give Reddit money, cancel your subscription and use an ad-blocker.

My username means, I am Steve.

It is. Shut down in 2020.

Voat is a sad story. The site itself was very good. When Reddit purged their worst subs and users, they all went to Voat. Predictably it became extremely toxic.