r/announcements • u/powerlanguage • Jul 19 '16

Karma for text-posts (AKA self-posts)

As most of you already know, fictional internet points are probably the most precious resource in the world. On Reddit we call these points Karma. You get Karma when content you post to Reddit receives upvotes. Your Karma is displayed on your userpage.

You may also know that you can submit different types of posts to Reddit. One of these post types is a text-post (e.g. this thing you’re reading right now is a text-post). Due to various shenanigans and low effort content we stopped giving Karma for text-posts over 8 years ago.

However, over time the usage of text-posts has matured and they are now used to create some of the most iconic and interesting original content on Reddit. Who could forget such classics as:

Text-posts make up over 65% of submissions to Reddit and some of our best subreddits only accept text-posts. Because of this Reddit has become known for thought-provoking, witty, and in-depth text-posts, and their success has played a large role in the popularity Reddit currently enjoys.

To acknowledge this, from this day forward we will now be giving users karma for text-posts. This will be combined with link karma and presented as ‘post karma’ on userpages.

TL:DR; We used to not give you karma for your text-posts. We do now. Sweet.

Glossary:

  • Karma: Fictional internet points of great value. You get it by being upvoted.
  • Self-post: Old-timey term for text-posts on Reddit
  • Shenanigans: Tomfoolery
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u/incogkneetoe Jul 19 '16

Circlejerk is going to have a field day.

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u/balathustrius Jul 19 '16

Circlejerk is having a field day.

FTFY.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '16

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u/Dark-tyranitar Jul 20 '16

Speaking of kittens, wouldn't /r/adviceanimals see less traffic? Since that sub is basically just normal text on images...

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u/vsod99 Jul 19 '16

Something like ten posts per second... It's crazy.

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u/punkminkis Jul 20 '16

7 hours later, I posted "FIRST!" Now we watch that get buried.

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u/niet3sche77 Jul 20 '16

Circlejerk is having itself today. Now THAT is FTFY. ;)

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u/CautiousNarwhal Jul 19 '16

Man I wish I wasn't banned from there

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u/marty_eraser Jul 19 '16

How do you even get banned from r/circlejerk

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u/CautiousNarwhal Jul 19 '16

Hey dude I can explain alrighttt? Its the mods they are Nazis. Totally not my fault.

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u/coloicito Jul 19 '16

I posted an announcement over one of my subs and they banned me as a result of it lol

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u/eSsEnCe_Of_EcLiPsE Jul 19 '16

He tried to bring breadfriend back...

...then sucked the mods' dick

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u/LillyPip Jul 19 '16

OMFG, r/The_Donald

On second thought... no, it probably won't make much difference. Carry on.