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View submission: An important update on post requirements
Right. I understand that. The problem for reddit is that karma and age gates have the undesirable by product of also ensnaring new users which then deters those new users from future participation in the sub. That's not something they really like which is understandable if you see it from their perspective.
I think their thought process essentially boils down to they would prefer if you crowd control a thread/sub and then out right ban any users instead of using automod's various methods of user control. And they'll let their ban evasion tool do the rest.
Comment by Tired8281 at 21/04/2021 at 04:33 UTC
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That's an awful lot of work for a sub that's mostly people high on drugs who have lots of time on their hands to disrupt my sub and enough impulse control problems to do it. Our karma limit is only 50, that's low enough that posting Go Dodgers somewhere would probably do it by itself, but it's enough that it takes too long for even a highly motivated person messed up on amphetamines to make enough accounts to really cause problems. It works great, except for the way Reddit sometimes displays the karma you give other people as your own karma, so I get people who have seen the requirement and think they are OK because the app or New Reddit told them they have like 60-70 when they only actually have like 30. Once I explain to them that it only counts post karma and comment karma, then they get it and almost nobody has had a problem with obtaining the necessary upvotes. Some people complain bitterly about how they ought to be an exception to the rule, of course, but that's to be expected. You should have seen some of the morning cleanups we had to do before we put in the karma minimum, where we'd wake up and somebody we'd banned had gone nuts overnight, advising our users to kill themselves and giving them lethally incorrect drug tips.