Comment by Aroelen on 19/07/2016 at 17:35 UTC*

156 upvotes, 3 direct replies (showing 3)

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

Have you consider giving mods the option to decide what kinds of posts (if any) give Karma in their subreddits?

• *EDIT:** Also, how come we only find out about this when the change is already done? This is a *huge* change, it could potentially ruin many big subreddits, and you don't give their mods any time to prepare for it? I think that has been a mistake.

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Comment by Norci at 20/07/2016 at 07:54 UTC

7 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Because they don't give a shit about mods, they primarily care about users generating more content. Janitors cleaning the shitposts up come secondary.

There was a momentary spur of providing mods with some basic thread management stuff following the blackout last year but that's it, they're now back to ignoring the mods.

Comment by JPong at 20/07/2016 at 13:41 UTC

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I don't think allowing it to be managed by subs is a good solution. You would still get that shit content by people who don't bother to read, and then you also get them complaining that they aren't getting karma for it.

It would still be better than the current situation, but not great.

I wonder if the admins have ever heard the phrase "Don't fix what isn't broken."

Comment by [deleted] at 20/07/2016 at 05:10 UTC

0 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Its not a democracy, it's a business. Evidently they think this will increase engagement and thus revenues.