Comment by [deleted] on 06/07/2020 at 19:39 UTC

165 upvotes, 7 direct replies (showing 7)

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Comment by LiveBeef at 06/07/2020 at 20:49 UTC

20 upvotes, 3 direct replies

I know the comparison to Digg has been made countless times over the years, but this really does feel like the beginning of the end. This right on the back of their "purge" of mostly inactive hate subreddits after years of accommodating them, their refusal to own any responsibility for their place as a vessel to active measures campaigns over the years, fuck, their refusal to let mods even tweak the CSS for their subs after the revolt and the "we promise we'll give this back to you" when the redesign first rolled out.

Reddit is a shit platform with shit ownership, and it's reaching a breaking point.

Comment by WHAT_YEAR_IS_IT at 06/07/2020 at 20:57 UTC

16 upvotes, 0 direct replies

The board meeting should've gone like this

Comment by Uristqwerty at 06/07/2020 at 20:45 UTC

11 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Maybe, but that karma looks like it will be labelled as coming from awards, so it might be that much easier for mods and admins to see when there's something fishy going on.

Comment by venkman01 at 06/07/2020 at 21:21 UTC

-6 upvotes, 9 direct replies

If you have Coins, you can give Awards and that will grant Awarder Karma. That means you can purchase Coins, and use them to get Awarder Karma, or you could also receive Coins from others for high quality content. As we've mentioned in a reply on our modnews post[1], we expect some karma farming to happen and we'll keep an eye on that in the experiment read.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/hmd17x/karma_experiment/fx4lf3u?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

It's worth noting that this is an experiment and we are testing things to see what works and what doesn't. Also Awarding is still a really small portion of activity compared to posting, commenting and voting.