Comment by venkman01 on 06/07/2020 at 20:29 UTC

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View submission: Karma experiment

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Thank you for checking in - just to clarify, this feature experiment won’t affect comment karma and thus wouldn’t affect these rules.

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Comment by eaglebtc at 06/07/2020 at 20:57 UTC*

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Then what's the value-add of this feature?

Visual change: For the length of the experiment, award karma will be added to the total karma and shown as a separate category in the user profile.

• How does this affect the karma score reported in the Reddit comment API?
• For third-party developers, will there be a separate key value for award karma?
• Is this going to require an iteration (v2, v3, etc) of the Reddit comment API to pull the correct (separate) values?

The concern here is that older iterations of the Reddit APIs will begin reporting the elevated karma count and only newer APIs will show the breakdown.