644 upvotes, 3 direct replies (showing 3)
View submission: Karma for text-posts (AKA self-posts)
"Knock knock" "Who's there?" "It doesn't matter, text posts get karma" ~/r/jokes
Edit: It's already started http://i.imgur.com/vQjEK29.png
Comment by TheRealMrWillis at 19/07/2016 at 19:07 UTC*
117 upvotes, 4 direct replies
/r/smashbros mod here. During major events like EVO, people scramble to be the first to post tournament threads for matches, which is problematic because we are constantly removing threads. Now that there is a karma incentive to post threads for big matches, we now have to deal with even more people trying to be the first.
I'm sure all the other "esports" subreddits feel the same way.
Edit: This comment[1] also sums up some of my other misgivings. A long time ago (before I was even a mod) /r/smashbros started putting most images and gifs in text posts to help weed out the low quality stuff. Despite the extra click, the addition of karma to text posts means that we now have to deal with this stuff again to some extent.
1: http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4tmb16/karma_for_textposts_aka_selfposts/d5iej3j
Comment by Numba1CharlsBarksFan at 19/07/2016 at 18:31 UTC
195 upvotes, 6 direct replies
Oh God, that joke is terrible.
Comment by Scherazade at 19/07/2016 at 20:00 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
To be fair that's about par for the course at /r/jokes sometimes.
