Comment by malaiser on 19/07/2016 at 17:28 UTC

391 upvotes, 11 direct replies (showing 11)

View submission: Karma for text-posts (AKA self-posts)

Part of the reason text posts have generally become higher quality, is because you don't have low quality posts trying to get karma. Why add karma to them? They worked as is. This is a silly change.

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Comment by rchase at 19/07/2016 at 18:25 UTC

26 upvotes, 2 direct replies

This is a silly change.*

Reads like an April 1st announcement to me. I mean it's obvious how this going to go. Will be an interesting week once it's implemented. By which I mean a shit storm. A *storm* made of shit.

Comment by _depression at 19/07/2016 at 18:09 UTC

6 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Part of the reason text posts have generally become higher quality, is because you don't have low quality posts trying to get karma

This was true, but you still had plenty of people making low quality text posts trying to get to the top of the subreddit or even reddit.

Comment by MrBulger at 19/07/2016 at 17:40 UTC

25 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Silly is an understatement. This is a major fuck up.

Comment by Thallassa at 19/07/2016 at 17:50 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I think that it should be the responsibility of moderators to institute and enforce rules that prevent low quality posts.

Or permit them. Some people apparently enjoy shitposting. Not my cup of tea.

I stick to subreddits that are high quality because the people who post genuinely care, not because they have to explicitly disallow karma whoring.

Comment by dfnkt at 19/07/2016 at 18:53 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I agree with this fully. Self-posts don't need to generate karma for the user who submitted them for them to be great, memorable posts. They're memorable because of their content or the discussion they created, not because of how many points the person gained in submitting it.

Karma seems one sided to me - By rewarding it you drive up shitposting and karmawhoring but I don't see any negatives to just not having it.

Comment by Pyloink at 19/07/2016 at 18:17 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

What if there was a certain level of karma you had to reach before you began to collect on it? Like a post has to reach 500 upvotes before the karma even counts?

Comment by tequila13 at 21/07/2016 at 13:47 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Adding karma is the logical thing to do i guess, it's makes things symmetrical. But I do think that it will be detrimental.

Comment by joeret at 19/07/2016 at 18:47 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Don't fix what isn't broken, right?

So why exactly did Reddit make the change? It would have to benefit them in someway.

Comment by ablackmanreplied at 19/07/2016 at 17:42 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Yea I like the idea of rewarding someone for a really amazing text post. They deserve the karma if they are into that but it's going to a lot more shit to sift through