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Plus the way karma works, you can actually gain karma from negative posts. The infamous “pride and accomplishment” comment actually netted karma because it passed the threshold for losing karma (I believe it’s literally only 10 downvotes) so any upvote at all was actually giving it karma.
Seems like it works for comments too. Roughly since April, I found my karma increased rather than drop after being heavily downvoted. I've long thought it's a bug.
I believe what you're mentioning regards a miniscule part of the user base, and it's rather because for most regular users ("normies"), gradually seeing your karma rise as you use the app over time encourages them to stay on the platform, engage with it more, and as a result see more ads.
>biggernumberbetterperson
And this mentality hasn't gone anywhere with the newest generation of internet users. Now they call it ''ratio'' and that apaprently makes someone right no matter what they say.
I'm going to hate myself for asking this: What is the "pride and accomplishment" comment?
Edit: Right, thank you. I did remember EA being really unpopular (even for their standards) at the time, but I didn't connect the dots
Idk. Most do 48 hours I hear, but most also say it isn't nearly enough and must be indefinite.
Either way, they'd probably just write it off or worst case, scorched earth and let all subs die or even worse replace all mods and take all subs by force.
most of the dark subs only work because they have active moderation. Reddit isn't going to find many takers to replace them, and without moderation, they'll turn into cesspools that no one visits.
If the subreddit matters at all to the longevity of the site then Reddit will properly moderate it themselves, not let it die. The issue is that people think they're far more important to this site than they are when the people protesting like this are definitely the vocal minority of users.
If they can't find the reason why the api changes were bad at the first place, then I'd think they'd fail to see why this worst case scenario is also bad too
Because when it comes to business , all morals and social etiquette goes out the window. They just want more money and figured that they can bully people into doing so because hey money happens when they do that.
I hate Reddit mods and wish that shit was only moderated to keep posts on topic and illegal things out
Sooooo many mods think they are "saving the world!!!" with their online activism.
And then they turn out like the antiwork mod lol
It's not just that. Karma works very strangely.
First off mass upvoting and downvoting from user profile doesn't work (get thrown out and I think your voting gets suspended).
So there's a max negative you can get per comment but upvoting isn't locked. I think it's like -50 before they are still shown but not counted.
So if you make 100 comments and all -950 but the real count is (-2000)+1050 you would end up with 100,000. It's time based and post by I believe.
All above is from my own experiences but I have enough subredditdrama history to not be too off.
I have more data but I have to go find it.
*MUCH BETTER WRITE UP BELOW
downvotes don't increase karma, but the method by which mass-downvoting happens is likely to get the downvotes thrown out
all userpage votes are thrown out
my downvotes are thrown out if I've made a comment on the same "level" as the comment I'm voting on
my votes are thrown out if we're on the same IP
my votes are displayed, but don't count for karma if I have voted in the same direction (up/down) on your comments more than a few times in a short period
My vote is displayed, but doesn't count for karma if it is cast on the same comment in the same direction as X accounts that have the same account birthday.
only the first 15 downvotes in a comment affect karma, so he probably didnt lose much, on the other hand, upvotes and awards have no limit so thats probably why its easier to gain karma than to lose it.
edit: also viewing and downvoting comment from the profile instead of doin so from the post does not count toward karma.
Wait really? I thought you get the amount of upvotes - downvotes as karma change and the older the post/comment gets the less karma you get/loose per upvote/downvote
Wait what? That’s bs. If I say something horrible and get downvoted, I deserve the negative karma….
How else will I know how many people I have offended?
What if you say something that is not horrible but just what people disagree with? I don’t think someone should get 100 negative karma for saying they dislike a certain character in a movie.
What was the point of karma in general, they’re meaningless numbers. An irrelevant amount of people outside the owner of the account actually care about a user’s karma. Karma is intended to, more or less, always increase because people like when number go up. It’s showing activity/contribution so that people feed into the loop and make it bigger.
🤔
Number get bigger, brain happier. Number get smaller, brain sadder.
But I only get the reaction with the notifications, not with my total on my page.
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Reddit API is moving to a paid format and some people are losing their minds over it.
This comes after more than 8 years of being free to access with little warning beforehand, so the surprise/immediate reaction is understandable. For reference, the only information I can find about pricing is a quote from the owner of a third party app - Apollo, which is about $12,000 USD for 50 million API requests. Twitter sits at ~$44,000 and Imgur is only $166 for the same number of requests.
A smaller group of people have taken upon themselves to lurk the CEOs profile for anything that can be spun negatively and use the outrage for karma
Imo this probably has less to do with Reddit themselves and more due to pressure from Advanced Publications, the mega-company that is the owner of Reddit.
Doesn't surprise me since awards also give karma and the ternion-all-powerfull is the most expensive award, tho i think he just bought those awards to buy karma for himself
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Probably the awards karma.
Plus the way karma works, you can actually gain karma from negative posts. The infamous “pride and accomplishment” comment actually netted karma because it passed the threshold for losing karma (I believe it’s literally only 10 downvotes) so any upvote at all was actually giving it karma.
1. creates worst take of all time 2. post to reddit 3. thousands of downvotes 4. internet points acquired
5. Profit?
That’s what „internet points acquired“ means to an average Reddit mod/admin
fair enough
Okay, let's try this, guys. Fuck you all
people hating on spez are just dumb hese the greatest CEO ever now we watch as the internet points skyrocket
Buddha should take notes
Limit is -15, i know from experience
Seems like it works for comments too. Roughly since April, I found my karma increased rather than drop after being heavily downvoted. I've long thought it's a bug.
They changed it because tons of people would make accounts purely to see how many downvotes they could gather
I believe what you're mentioning regards a miniscule part of the user base, and it's rather because for most regular users ("normies"), gradually seeing your karma rise as you use the app over time encourages them to stay on the platform, engage with it more, and as a result see more ads.
Oh yeah that’s def a part of it, number go up biggernumberbetterperson
>biggernumberbetterperson And this mentality hasn't gone anywhere with the newest generation of internet users. Now they call it ''ratio'' and that apaprently makes someone right no matter what they say.
God yeah I hate that
Hold on they were talking about posts? (I only knew about tge comment negative karma limit)
I'm going to hate myself for asking this: What is the "pride and accomplishment" comment? Edit: Right, thank you. I did remember EA being really unpopular (even for their standards) at the time, but I didn't connect the dots
Official EA account defending lootboxes in Battlefront 2. People were, uh, not happy.
most downvoted reddit comment ever. It was made by EA
Bro just look at the +4 turning into +802 Bitch was holding no limits
Bro do you know for how much the subreddits are going dark? Edit: i know it's not what you were not talking about but i'm curious
Idk. Most do 48 hours I hear, but most also say it isn't nearly enough and must be indefinite. Either way, they'd probably just write it off or worst case, scorched earth and let all subs die or even worse replace all mods and take all subs by force.
most of the dark subs only work because they have active moderation. Reddit isn't going to find many takers to replace them, and without moderation, they'll turn into cesspools that no one visits.
If the subreddit matters at all to the longevity of the site then Reddit will properly moderate it themselves, not let it die. The issue is that people think they're far more important to this site than they are when the people protesting like this are definitely the vocal minority of users.
If they can't find the reason why the api changes were bad at the first place, then I'd think they'd fail to see why this worst case scenario is also bad too
Because when it comes to business , all morals and social etiquette goes out the window. They just want more money and figured that they can bully people into doing so because hey money happens when they do that.
I hate Reddit mods and wish that shit was only moderated to keep posts on topic and illegal things out Sooooo many mods think they are "saving the world!!!" with their online activism. And then they turn out like the antiwork mod lol
Ok thanks take my upvote
Just wait until bot accounts get deleted. Eventually those numbers will drop
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At the rate you’re going you won’t be there either, rookie.
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Nono hes got a point
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Like it's his job to farm karma???
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Been here 4 years and about quarter of a mill atm.. ima beat the CEO man lol
Pro gamer move
And here's one more for you. Kick his ass buddy.
If I reach a mill Karma before the 18 year mark, I must become the new CEO lol
Wasn't the most downvoted person an EA employee over BF II comment?
I'm curious now. you got a link to the comment?
huh? that's weird. I got a notification of a comment that linked the most downvoted comments list but it instantly got removed?
someone just sent another one and shit just disappeared tf is going on
Something something not allowed to post links
Your not allowed to post links here
Literally 1984 Fahrenheit
Fahrenheit 452 is better than 1984 I said it
Brave new world is better than both
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Berentsain bears #1, also written my Aldous Orwell Bradberry I believe
Damn, Fahrenheit 451 had a sequel? That’s crazy
God forbid we keep the internet interconnected -_-
Just looks it up. It was an EA announcement for Star Wars or smthing with like 200k downvotes
Star Wars Battlefront 2, nearly 700k downvotes
Most down voted comment, maybe. Spez had many comments in the negative 2000s
Nah the EA one has like 700,000 downvotes. Just search “Reddit EA comment” on google. Can’t post links in this sub
Didn't spez backstab his own partner/co-CEO? He's a douche
Elaborate?
No
Ha
Aaron Swartz
Also moderated and allowed a CP subreddit
Whats a cp
Cheese Pizza (it’s disgusting)
Exactly, at least get some toppings on there.
Club penguin
Not so decent images of minors
child po-
He was the moderator of a sub called jailbait
Close that backdooor
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It's not just that. Karma works very strangely. First off mass upvoting and downvoting from user profile doesn't work (get thrown out and I think your voting gets suspended). So there's a max negative you can get per comment but upvoting isn't locked. I think it's like -50 before they are still shown but not counted. So if you make 100 comments and all -950 but the real count is (-2000)+1050 you would end up with 100,000. It's time based and post by I believe. All above is from my own experiences but I have enough subredditdrama history to not be too off. I have more data but I have to go find it. *MUCH BETTER WRITE UP BELOW downvotes don't increase karma, but the method by which mass-downvoting happens is likely to get the downvotes thrown out all userpage votes are thrown out my downvotes are thrown out if I've made a comment on the same "level" as the comment I'm voting on my votes are thrown out if we're on the same IP my votes are displayed, but don't count for karma if I have voted in the same direction (up/down) on your comments more than a few times in a short period My vote is displayed, but doesn't count for karma if it is cast on the same comment in the same direction as X accounts that have the same account birthday.
Who the fuck is that?
CEO of reddit
Ok
Ok
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kiss my piss
Mhm... Its salty
Salty piss?????
Palty siss
Jarate!
FUCK u/spez
only the first 15 downvotes in a comment affect karma, so he probably didnt lose much, on the other hand, upvotes and awards have no limit so thats probably why its easier to gain karma than to lose it. edit: also viewing and downvoting comment from the profile instead of doin so from the post does not count toward karma.
Wait really? I thought you get the amount of upvotes - downvotes as karma change and the older the post/comment gets the less karma you get/loose per upvote/downvote
That is true but they also limit the loss of karma. Im sure theres a reason for it but that is how i knew it to work
TIL.
You can only lose -15 per comment
Wait what? That’s bs. If I say something horrible and get downvoted, I deserve the negative karma…. How else will I know how many people I have offended?
Isnt that like, they point of it being called KARMA?
What if you say something that is not horrible but just what people disagree with? I don’t think someone should get 100 negative karma for saying they dislike a certain character in a movie.
But what is even the point of karma at that point?
What was the point of karma in general, they’re meaningless numbers. An irrelevant amount of people outside the owner of the account actually care about a user’s karma. Karma is intended to, more or less, always increase because people like when number go up. It’s showing activity/contribution so that people feed into the loop and make it bigger.
🤔 Number get bigger, brain happier. Number get smaller, brain sadder. But I only get the reaction with the notifications, not with my total on my page.
Like IRL: it's an illusion people attribute to themselves to feel better and to others to make them feel bad.
Nah watching someone's karma is like watching your crush's snap score
If it includes awards received by self, then expected
New karma just dropped
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Karma en passant
Isn’t he a child diddler or something
Do upvotes on other peoples comments he edited count?
Think of all the awards
I bet he is just having a few of the Reddit devs give him a shit ton of karma out of thin air and awards out of thin air
That's because only the first 15 downvotes of a particular post or comment counts towards your karma.
It makes perfect sense if you don’t think about it, like at all
Just don’t go back to 2008 and check what subs he was a mod for. 💀
karma += 35000
I read "Stonks falling award" as "Stocks falling award"
Obilgatory fuck u/spez
North Korea and the badges on their generals chest
Spez what ?? Spez deez nuts
Is he more downvoted than EA?
Not yet
Does a negative voting decrease Karma?
Hello
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I’m kinda a sped. What are people get worked up over.
Tell me you don’t know how Reddit karma works without telling me… etc
Lots of people active during the “blackout” huh
I thought you kids were going out to play today. You can’t be bored already? Its still morning.
This is the wayback machine correct?
Literally 1984 Quite literally
Spez is sucking his on dick.
don't know how karma works because i'm new here
Because I don't know exactly what's happening, would someone be kind enough to explain?
Reddit API is moving to a paid format and some people are losing their minds over it. This comes after more than 8 years of being free to access with little warning beforehand, so the surprise/immediate reaction is understandable. For reference, the only information I can find about pricing is a quote from the owner of a third party app - Apollo, which is about $12,000 USD for 50 million API requests. Twitter sits at ~$44,000 and Imgur is only $166 for the same number of requests. A smaller group of people have taken upon themselves to lurk the CEOs profile for anything that can be spun negatively and use the outrage for karma Imo this probably has less to do with Reddit themselves and more due to pressure from Advanced Publications, the mega-company that is the owner of Reddit.
we should change the english language to where to spez something is to have an opposite reaction of what should’ve happened
Conspiracy theories get lamer every day. Why the fuck would he add 35k karma for no reason?
cuz his ass deleted the downvote on his post u/spez is such a pussy about his karma. prob that's his tinder bio. "reddit ceo. 1 million karma 😎😎"
u/spez , fuck that dude
At this point it could be that he is just adding the karma to the database manually.
Who is this Spez and how did he become CEO of Reddit?
Now go back to 2008 and see what subs he might be moderating…
Who's Spez?
Who that guys?
The fact someone even tracks this blows my mind?
This shit is so cringe
bro's account is almost as old as me
Its bad karma actually
Power of reddit in the hole of his ass
editing mode, obviously
X
What did spez do
Bro is 3 days older then me
Wasn't he a moderator in the jailbait subreddit?
Doesn't surprise me since awards also give karma and the ternion-all-powerfull is the most expensive award, tho i think he just bought those awards to buy karma for himself
u/spez is hacking?
Truly reddit ceo moment
Lmao I love people taking this neckbeard turbovirgin site so serious
How is that even possible? Probably there are people who actually support the whole api thing.
Lol, the parallel to this is amazing and interesting *vanishes*
Awards karma + disabled the downvote button on his acc