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Award karma does not increase lower quality posts and comments, such as for “award begging.”
Hope you'll monitor this after the rollout, since the experiment is surely not widely known, so people wouldn't've known to start begging more for awards yet. That may well change.
Also, potential spammers couldn't opt-in to the experiment, so their possible actions probably wouldn't've been measurable until this rolls out to everyone.
I'm not naysaying. I'm not fond of awards because people do beg for them already, but whatever. I also subscribe to reddit, even though I have mixed feelings on some things, but I receive benefit and it seems fair. And so I use my coins to give awards. So it's a huge mixed bag of irritation and being mostly fine with it all.
Comment by justcool393 at 24/09/2020 at 23:55 UTC
22 upvotes, 0 direct replies
people wouldn't've known to start begging more for awards yet.
I don't think this will change the "begging for gold" thing appreciably tbh, if at all. The people who "ask" for gold have done so for years, way before there were even any other awards or benefits aside from gold.
Comment by plgrmonedge at 25/09/2020 at 00:29 UTC
12 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Thank you for being a subscriber! And yes, we will continue to monitor lower quality posts and “award begging” after the rollout.
Unlike most experiments, award karma ran at a 50% user exposure. This meant a lot of users would have seen it; also, spammers would have a high chance of succeeding to get into the experiment (50-50).