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View submission: Karma for text-posts (AKA self-posts)
I'm a bit concerned by this, honestly. The number of subreddits I know of that specifically moved away from allowing link posts and switched to text in order to prevent karma seeking -- and now those subreddits have no recourse to prevent karma seeking.
I have a solution though -- subreddit opt out. Karma only applies to the subreddit itself for page display purposes and does not contribute to individual user scores.
edit: Gold (?!) Thank you, kind anonymous stranger. :)
Comment by astromaddie at 19/07/2016 at 18:12 UTC
39 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Subreddit opt-out
I suggested this earlier too (not trying to claim credit, just want to voice additional support). I'm going to keep up voting all of these suggestions because *yes*, that is exactly the solution to avoid fucking up the good, small communities that really benefit from self-posts foregoing karma.
Comment by Cedosg at 19/07/2016 at 18:02 UTC
31 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Please make this happen.
Comment by Ella_Spella at 19/07/2016 at 18:00 UTC
32 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Absolutely! This makes sense!
Comment by [deleted] at 19/07/2016 at 17:48 UTC*
769 upvotes, 3 direct replies
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Comment by [deleted] at 19/07/2016 at 18:08 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Basically like states' rights. I like it.
Comment by boonzeet at 19/07/2016 at 18:13 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
subreddit opt out! fantastic idea
Comment by elypter at 19/07/2016 at 19:00 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
but all those subreddits are not good ad targeting groups and just cost bandwidth
Comment by OBJesus at 19/07/2016 at 18:07 UTC
1 upvotes, 2 direct replies
For the mods of subreddits that want to avoid low-effort posts and karma whoring, can't they just delete the posts that are obvious karma whoring? Doesn't seem like that big of an issue.
Comment by DragosBad at 19/07/2016 at 18:11 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This so much. Or better, give karma only to the posts that pass a certain number of karma. For example, if a text posts has over 500 karma, it can be considered a quality post and the karma will be added to the user that made the post. If a post has under 500 karma, nothing will be given to the user that made it. In this way we can sort the low effort posts from the high effort ones. 500 seems a reasonable number imo.
Comment by madagent at 20/07/2016 at 00:30 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This would be awesome for keeping those non default, small subs quality up. I have a looot of negative karma. Most of it for speaking my mind, and a little for shitposting. I'd like to keep posting in places where people like me, who don't care about points, post too.
Comment by IRushPeople at 19/07/2016 at 20:40 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Right? Best of both worlds.
We definitely need a way to disincentivize karma whores though. I like the idea of individual subreddits being able to say "Nah, not here.".
Comment by zando95 at 19/07/2016 at 23:40 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Karma only applies to the subreddit itself for page display purposes and does not contribute to individual user scores.
What does this mean?
Comment by Charlie_Warlie at 19/07/2016 at 19:36 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
You just made me realize why r/fallout only has text posts with links in descriptions. Make so much sense now.
Comment by [deleted] at 19/07/2016 at 21:26 UTC*
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
deleted ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^0.6378 ^^^What ^^^is ^^^this?
Comment by dfnkt at 19/07/2016 at 18:54 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I agree with you but subreddit opt-out seems like a nightmare from a code standpoint.
Comment by Norci at 19/07/2016 at 19:39 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
They don't care, they didn't even give mods a headsup about this.
Comment by minngeilo at 19/07/2016 at 21:54 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Oh God! Do we want /r/The_Donald and /r/circlejerk at the top?
Comment by zeug666 at 19/07/2016 at 18:09 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
karma seeking
I believe you mean "karma whoring."
Comment by AgentBester at 19/07/2016 at 18:14 UTC
0 upvotes, 1 direct replies
If you are so against Karma seeking, why not eliminate it altogether? As it stands, people who are putting effort and time into the site are not being treated equally; that needs to change.
Comment by [deleted] at 19/07/2016 at 19:27 UTC
0 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I think you guys just find a way to complain about anything that happens.
This could have been the exact opposite and you'd still have this post complaining for opposite reasons
Comment by [deleted] at 19/07/2016 at 20:09 UTC
0 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Why does it matter if someone is seeking karma? Why not just judge the post itself and if it's good then great, and if not then downvote it.
Comment by Limiate at 19/07/2016 at 18:56 UTC
0 upvotes, 0 direct replies
/u/kaliena obviously posted this to garner upvotes, what a blatant disregard for quality replies!