42 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)
View submission: Karma experiment
I honestly cannot believe with reddit's track record that they think this won't cause massive karma farming or will magically come up with ways to mitigate it.
This is *literally* designed, plain and simple, to allow people to pay reddit money to boost accounts instead of a third-party karma service. This admin post is disgusting to read.
How are we supposed to combat spam and trolls with negative karma when they can just pay money to bypass karma filters now, u/venkman01?
Comment by Jerome_Eugene_Morrow at 06/07/2020 at 20:57 UTC
10 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I can't imagine they don't know. This is reddit embracing a pay-to-win mentality. Posts that have paid awards will have a competitive edge and be more likely to reach the top of the thread/sub.
This is going to lead to an era of influencers and paid shills. This could really be reddit's Digg moment. It will change the underlying power dynamic of the site in a substantial way.
Comment by Zouden at 06/07/2020 at 21:04 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
How are we supposed to combat spam and trolls with negative karma when they can just pay money to bypass karma filters
Well they'll still have negative karma according to the automoderator since it counts award karma separately.