174 upvotes, 3 direct replies (showing 3)
View submission: Karma experiment
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 [deleted] at 07/07/2020 at 02:21 UTC
88 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Awards stopped meaning anything after silver was monetized. It's all a stupid joke. Reddit is clamoring for money as we clamor for karma.
Comment by Ashlir at 07/07/2020 at 15:44 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
But it maximizes reddits returns and allows paid advertisers to look like legit accounts.
Comment by SilverThyme2045 at 02/08/2020 at 21:07 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This will make it easier for account farmers who are selling accounts. Then they can buy a ton of cheap awards, and sell their account for $300, when they only spent $100 on it.