Comment by eaglebtc on 06/07/2020 at 21:10 UTC

38 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)

Many people in Moderator News voiced concerns that this will lead to increased karma-farming.

What is the value-add of this feature?

Visual change: For the length of the experiment, award karma will be added to the total karma and shown as a separate category in the user profile.

I am concerned that older iterations of the Reddit comment API will begin reporting the elevated karma count and only a newer API will show the breakdown.

How does this affect the karma score reported in the Reddit comment API?
For third-party developers, will there be a separate key value for award karma?
Is this going to require an iteration (v2, v3, etc) of the Reddit comment API to pull the correct (separate) values?

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Comment by UnacceptableUse at 06/07/2020 at 23:03 UTC

3 upvotes, 1 direct replies

You can already get comment vs post karma by the api now, right? I imagine it'll be like that

Comment by PoglaTheGrate at 07/07/2020 at 23:51 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

award karma will be added to the total karma and shown as a separate category in the user profile.

Stop trying to make user profiles happen, they're not going to happen.