17 upvotes, 1 direct replies (showing 1)
View submission: Karma for text-posts (AKA self-posts)
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 [deleted] at 19/07/2016 at 19:55 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It makes me sad that you're probably right.
Still, in all honesty, it's immaterial to me. If the quality dips, I'll find something else to do with my time, and that'll be that. But hey, if I can help stop the quality from dipping...