660 upvotes, 12 direct replies (showing 12)
View submission: Karma experiment
I am of the opinion that the users that clamor for karma aren't the types of people that make communities good. They just go for the mass-appeal, low hanging fruit comments that tend to garner lots of upvotes for a silly score that doesn't matter at all.
This change would just inflate the perceived "value", and just give one more thing to the people who already chase those numbers. It'll just, in my belief, increase the number of posts that are fishing for awards and upvotes.
But maybe I'm in the minority here, as a low-karma user (who has no desire to 'chase' those numbers) myself.
Comment by Hubris2 at 06/07/2020 at 23:38 UTC
180 upvotes, 3 direct replies
This is effectively allowing people to *purchase* karma. While 'New Reddit' tries to combine the karma score and will no doubt present this lowest-quality karma within the combined score...I agree that this is likely to have some negative effects by lowering the value of karma...either by having people beg for awards...or by having people purchase awards to spam to increase their karma scores.
This lowers the value of awards and karma both.
Comment by heythisisbrandon at 07/07/2020 at 00:35 UTC
28 upvotes, 0 direct replies
They don't care about that, they care about people spending money. If you get in early, you get more karma. That should tell you all you need to know.
Comment by SlothOfDoom at 06/07/2020 at 19:25 UTC
70 upvotes, 2 direct replies
They might not make good communities but they make good traffic, and let's face it, that's what really matters.
Comment by Briak at 07/07/2020 at 01:08 UTC
19 upvotes, 1 direct replies
100% in agreement. Reddit makes more money at the cost of worse community interaction.
Comment by LagunaGTO at 07/07/2020 at 04:23 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Can you please just get rid of karma? Or make it like LinkedIn. Once you have a certain amount, it just says plus. So maybe show numbers until combined 10,000 and then after that just show 10,000+, even if they have millions.
Karma brings on spam, shitposters, and more. It drastically reduces the quality of reddit. Please fucking get rid of it.
Comment by f__ckyourhappiness at 07/07/2020 at 05:20 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Boom, enjoy the award.
Now, is your comment now invalid because of the award?
I'm tempted to say yes.
Comment by [deleted] at 07/07/2020 at 16:02 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
No, you're right. I used to try to collect tons of karma about 5 years ago, and a lot of my higher earning comments were just jokes everyone had heard before.
Comment by TheCheesy at 07/07/2020 at 18:40 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It would also allow users to buy upvotes and visibility.
Comment by haltingpoint at 12/07/2020 at 04:46 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Them and nation state actors. I'm not sure how this doesn't incentivize such behavior from them and provide an avenue for their funds.
Comment by TheDevilsAdvokaat at 17/07/2020 at 02:54 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Actually I second this. If it were possible I'd like to see a karmaless reddit....or at least one where karma was not viewable.
Comment by plgrmonedge at 06/07/2020 at 18:34 UTC
-21 upvotes, 8 direct replies
Thanks for the feedback. This is definitely something we'll be watching for. We are starting with an experiment in hopes that this will elevate good content. We're excited to see what the results are.
Comment by Fade_T0_Black at 07/07/2020 at 02:03 UTC
0 upvotes, 0 direct replies
That's what reddit wants