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View submission: Karma for text-posts (AKA self-posts)
Text-posts make up over 65% of submissions to Reddit and some of our best subreddits only accept text-posts. Because of this Reddit has become known for thought-provoking, witty, and in-depth text-posts, and their success has played a large role in the popularity Reddit currently enjoys.
Because people don't use them to get karma
Comment by Dakroon1 at 19/07/2016 at 18:20 UTC
16 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Right? I have to imagine that the type of people that really wanted this change are just hungry for more karma. Seems silly to cater to those type of people now.
Comment by Rizzpooch at 20/07/2016 at 00:45 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Yeah, I don't get this. It's even in the Bible. People who care about the means rather than the end - the people who care about the post itself and not the karma - make for a good community and a good site. People who care about money, power, karma, or anything else like that don't care how they get it and will do anything (read: shitpost) to get it
Comment by WilsonHanks at 19/07/2016 at 19:26 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I'll have you know that I have submitted many text-shit-posts there buddy!