45 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)
View submission: Karma for text-posts (AKA self-posts)
Have you tried asking the community what our thoughts are first, instead of pushing these changes unexpectedly and with no prior discussion?
Comment by [deleted] at 19/07/2016 at 19:53 UTC*
18 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I'm convinced this is about money. More incentive to post, more posts = more gold and traffic, traffic makes ad space more valuable. This is a private company doing what a private company does, profiting. This is not for the benefit of the community. Reddit will take a huge hit in quality but that's irrelevant to the admins as long as there is traffic.
Edit: I have been browsing /new for years. I just went through 5 pages and had to down vote every text post because the low-effort posts and reposts have already started. Reddit is killing their Knights of /new.
Comment by astarkey12 at 19/07/2016 at 19:57 UTC
2 upvotes, 2 direct replies
They could have at least piloted the idea in a handful of subs before rolling it out site-wide.