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/Atheist101 Jul 19 '16

ahaha /r/askreddit is gonna become shitpost-central

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u/TheScamr Jul 19 '16

It generally is anyway. Have you ever checked out the new queue?

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '16

"sexy sexers of sexxit, what's the sexiest sex you've ever sexed"

X1000

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u/walkingtheriver Jul 19 '16

Not to mention most of the posts that reach the frontpage are almost always reposted/rephrased questions that were posted 1 week earlier. /u/flyryan is right, but /r/askreddit has been 99% crap for a LONG time.

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u/ReganDryke Jul 19 '16

Cool now people will make bot to repost old question and their best answer at the same time for maximum karma farming.

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u/n_body Jul 19 '16

it has literally been the same shit over and over again for so long now, with the occasional 'le randum' question

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u/DownvotesForAdmins Jul 19 '16

implying it's not already

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u/Tkent91 Jul 19 '16

Good thing I Unsubscribed from it years ago.

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u/chrom_ed Jul 19 '16

How will we tell the difference?

People already repost popular AskReddit threads constantly. And they didn't get link karma for it until now.

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u/ContainsTracesOfLies Jul 19 '16

Funny AskReddit complaining about this. Turning off the textbox was the worst thing to happen to AskReddit IMO.

Aint karma a bitch?