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View submission: An important update on post requirements
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.
Comment by itskdog at 21/04/2021 at 15:58 UTC
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The shown total karma includes the new award karma, but if you change your automod message from saying "karma" and instead say something like "sum of your post and comment karma (i.e. not including awarder or awardee karma)" then that could clear things up, if that's where the confusion lies?
Comment by BuckRowdy at 21/04/2021 at 05:03 UTC
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I certainly understand. I still use them on subs with a high tendency to be trolled. I don't see that going away any time soon. Obviously there are lots of subs that need even better ways to control users. I use safestbot in one sub because I need to be able to control some users by the karma they have in *other* subs.