262 upvotes, 3 direct replies (showing 3)
View submission: Karma experiment
My first thought is this can be used by spammers to buy karma to make their ads move up in the algorithm
Comment by empw at 06/07/2020 at 18:45 UTC
69 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Thus driving more revenue to reddit which seems to be a major purpose of this. Not sure they'll mind.
Comment by venkman01 at 06/07/2020 at 18:56 UTC
79 upvotes, 8 direct replies
Hey u/MajorParadox, this change will have **no** change on sorting or ranking. Additionally, we'll be working with our Safety team to make sure there are similar mechanisms to prevent manipulation as there is with vote manipulation.
Comment by darthjoey91 at 06/07/2020 at 20:37 UTC
4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Or at the very least not get Automod’d by rules that remove posts and comments from users with negative karma scores.