108 upvotes, 3 direct replies (showing 3)
View submission: Karma for text-posts (AKA self-posts)
I can actually see more people trying to copy the karma success of the Jenny saga in /r/tifu. Also expect even more and more crappy multiple part stories in /r/nosleep and other creative writing subs. Even if you're submitting quality, why submit one long story and reap karma once, when you can submit 10 shorter stories and multiply your karma (a.k.a. the Lionsgate approach)?
Comment by juicethebrick at 19/07/2016 at 18:32 UTC
45 upvotes, 2 direct replies
You already see a lot of this in /r/nosleep as it is. That sub should be more worried about the "I was going to finish this story in a convincing manner, but I am doing a book, so buy that to finish the story" posts.
Also, it seems (for better and worse) that a lot of multipart text posts in nosleep are because the author uses a lot of words.
Comment by RandomPrecision1 at 19/07/2016 at 18:54 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I mean, wasn't the Jenny story not even the first /r/tifu story with by-the-minute updates about a cheating girlfriend named Jenny? I think other character names might have also been directly lifted from the other story too.
Maybe I'm just cynical, but I feel like a lot of the expected results of this change are already here.
Comment by NottinghamExarch at 20/07/2016 at 05:52 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
To be fair, ever since the Search and Rescue Woods stories, /r/nosleep had become an endless parade of "I am/was [insert job here] and the wierdest/strangest/craziest stuff keeps happening to me" stories, all told in 5 installments