The initial purpose of karma is to serve as user reputation and indicate that the person with tons of downvotes as trolls. It used to be a good system until spez realised the importance of engagement in social media, and then karma became a dopamine-inducing instrument to keep users on the site.
When I was on reddit, some users would tell me my karma or comment is only going down for going against the grain. I hit back that they are the losers for caring about imaginary points. I also hate that if you are logged into new reddit, it would notify you of new upvotes on your comment. I don’t care! I’m not a kid anymore to revel on receiving participation trophies. The new reddit design is clearly for children who don’t know any better and this is why I think reddit will last longer than we would wish it not to be. If I want a dopamine hit, I’d prefer being notified of new responses, or I would look at some of my upvoted comments if I am feeling that shallow.
It used to be a good system until spez realised the importance of engagement in social media, and then karma became a dopamine-inducing instrument to keep users on the site.
Of course that’s what sells – being engaged as much as playing an MMORPG.
That given enough karma, the account can then be sold to anyone with money.
Your point about going against the grain and being downvoted is a great point. Maybe reddit wouldn’t be so one sided if almost everyone wasn’t so concerned about karma points.
It depends on what commuy you are in. Others are better and more open minded.
It also depends on the time of the day whether you get upvote or downvote. You could express an opinion and it will get massive upvotes. But post the same opinion on another day and time and it will get downvoted to oblivion. You get different audience depending on the time and day.
Agreed on the time of day. My guess was always that older people went there after work and during the day it was mostly school age (college and high school) kids. Though I don’t know if that’s true
The initial purpose of karma is to serve as user reputation and indicate that the person with tons of downvotes as trolls. It used to be a good system until spez realised the importance of engagement in social media, and then karma became a dopamine-inducing instrument to keep users on the site.
When I was on reddit, some users would tell me my karma or comment is only going down for going against the grain. I hit back that they are the losers for caring about imaginary points. I also hate that if you are logged into new reddit, it would notify you of new upvotes on your comment. I don’t care! I’m not a kid anymore to revel on receiving participation trophies. The new reddit design is clearly for children who don’t know any better and this is why I think reddit will last longer than we would wish it not to be. If I want a dopamine hit, I’d prefer being notified of new responses, or I would look at some of my upvoted comments if I am feeling that shallow.
Of course that’s what sells – being engaged as much as playing an MMORPG.
That given enough karma, the account can then be sold to anyone with money.
Your point about going against the grain and being downvoted is a great point. Maybe reddit wouldn’t be so one sided if almost everyone wasn’t so concerned about karma points.
It depends on what commuy you are in. Others are better and more open minded.
It also depends on the time of the day whether you get upvote or downvote. You could express an opinion and it will get massive upvotes. But post the same opinion on another day and time and it will get downvoted to oblivion. You get different audience depending on the time and day.
Agreed on the time of day. My guess was always that older people went there after work and during the day it was mostly school age (college and high school) kids. Though I don’t know if that’s true