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karma makes reddit worse. Up/downvotes are great but overall account karma is fucking terrible.
As a recovering karma whore, I can attest to this.
I was super active in drama subs because I am a drama whore at heart. I knew how to just farm karma on them. Lukewarm take with just enough ability to be disageed with that the "bad" people will interact driving up the interactions.
All you gotta do is post stuff like "thank you to the brave firefighters" on posts involving firefighters. Not knocking on firefighters or trying to diminish their contributions, but it was always hilarious seeing how many top comments basically said nothing more than that. I was always doing it as satire but I don't think people realized.
It encourages shitposting, high karma almost always was related to memes, not being helpful
You just received five MeowMeowBeanz.
What's the conversion rate of one MeowMeowBeanz to one Schrute buck?