Personally I think not having karma limits is nice currently! I understand why they were used but grinding karma as a lurker on reddit was frustrating.

  • hllywluis@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Lol I think over my 11 years on reddit I only had 1.6k karma… And while I love internet points as much as the next guy it’s much healthier not to even see an overall count on here. Makes me hope that they don’t add it so I don’t have to be constantly worrying about what my overall score is.

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      1 year ago

      TBH karma + post/comment history is helpful is picking out trolls though. For me it’s a way of finding out if the person is an argumentative twat or just someone who’s views are different to my own.

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      1 year ago

      Exactly. I say this as someone who had nearly a million accumulated on the other site: karma points should only exist in the context of the current discussion, not as an overall tally for the user. Sure, it helps people quickly spot obvious trolls, but the downside is you end up with power-users (Gallowboob anyone?) who only repost content to watch the funny number go up. None of that here, for the love of god.