The subreddit r/steam, about the digital game storefront, received as many other subreddits a notice to open the community again, or else the mods would be replaced by those who abide....
That though process won't even cross their mind. More like "See? The reopened communities are very active and actually generate MORE clicks now. We were right to force them open!". Only if the new direction would produce less clicks or advertisers are bothered by it ("I wanted to advertise my camera in r/pics but the new direction makes it unprofitable") they might look into where that "sabotage" is coming from and care about it.
Ah, yes, they don't allow it because it muddles their data. Never forget that whatever rewards they give you aren't free, you sell your data to them for that reward. They want to know which age group or gender buys which products how often, so card sharing messes with their data because suddenly all the "young lady" purchases are on the card of an old man or whatever. It's actually not a huge problem if it happens once because they anyways need hundreds if not thousands of data points to learn anything from it (because they look at "average" purchases), but the cleaner the data set the easier it gets.
There were already trials where shops could predict if you are pregnant based on your purchases. How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father DidThis card data is pure gold (if enough people participate), which is why stores love starting their own program to collect or join a big card provider who will share that data with them.
r/steam (maliciously) complies with the call to open again (lemmy.world)
The subreddit r/steam, about the digital game storefront, received as many other subreddits a notice to open the community again, or else the mods would be replaced by those who abide....
Won't let me use someone else's (free) rewards card? No problem, i'll make you sign me up for another card!
(full disclosure - I posted this on reddit about 6 years ago, just saw it while I was deleting my reddit posts and thought I would port it over)...