24 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)
View submission: Karma for text-posts (AKA self-posts)
Indeed, I really don't like this change speaking for /r/anime.
Comment by dabritian at 19/07/2016 at 19:36 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
/r/Fallout switched to self-post to avoid karma farming around the time Fallout 4 was announced.[1] Not sure if that rule is still going on but any subreddits who's moderation was based on text post curbing certain content that was made with the goal of karma farming is gone now. If there was some new way for posts to be set not to gain karma (like having special variants on link & texts that users can submit & opt-out of gaining karma) this would not be much of an issue.
1: https://np.reddit.com/r/Fallout/comments/3i77wt/rfallout_is_now_self_posts_only/
Comment by [deleted] at 20/07/2016 at 02:18 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I think we just have to wait and see how it will affect us at the moment, it might lead to people using their upvotes more liberally and actually directing the flow of new posts on the subreddit.