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| Topic | What's the point of the karma system on reddit? Especially downvoting |
| s0nicfan 03/09/24 12:15:23 PM #17: | On paper the idea was to crowdsource forum moderation. It's way easier to just tell the community to police themselves than it is to maintain a body of full-time volunteer mods or actually pay people.
In practice, it's completely destroyed the basic forum concept in exchange for a popularity contest where people are more concerned with structuring their response for upvotes than they are actually responding to arguments. --- "History Is Much Like An Endless Waltz. The Three Beats Of War, Peace And Revolution Continue On Forever." - Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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