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Companies trying to spam their products while falsely awarding themselves with karma to create a fake sense of positivity
Couldn't they do this already? Nothing will change when viewing a post, so they could always just buy themsleves awards.
Politicians and Russian trolls using awarded karma to influence sentiment and messaging
Award karma doesn't affect ranking of posts or automod rules, you could easily go to someones profile and see they have 1 million award karma but -100 post karma and know they were dodgy.
Misinformation being spread across Reddit
Doesn't this just sum up the first 2 points?
There's nothing here!