104 upvotes, 3 direct replies (showing 3)
View submission: Karma experiment
I also worry that it effectively becomes a "pay for upvote". A user could then (with an alt, or through friends) "game" the system by purchasing lots of pseudo votes, which drastically goes against the 1-vote-per-user system that reddit was built on.
Comment by Sierra117 at 06/07/2020 at 21:48 UTC
17 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This is literally a Reddit level implementation of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision. **Money = Speech.**
And how well has that one turned out for all of us in the good old US of A?
Comment by [deleted] at 06/07/2020 at 21:28 UTC*
29 upvotes, 2 direct replies
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Comment by Kevin2GO at 06/07/2020 at 19:02 UTC
17 upvotes, 2 direct replies
well at least they wont change the ranking of awarded comments or posts, so except for them technically buying karma (which is useless anyways) i don't see the problem with that