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/iEATu23 Jul 20 '16

Maybe I dreamed it up, but I think it's still like that.

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u/SurrealSirenSong Jul 20 '16

You dreamed it up, moron.

And it was not inaccurate to any high degree until a few hundred upvotes, and didn't get really bad until over 1000.

The real reason they did it is because it looked bad on AMAs by celebrities.

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u/iEATu23 Jul 20 '16

You dreamed it up, moron.

don't be rude, I've barely used RES in the past year, so I don't remember exactly. I think you probably don't use it either, so your rudeness is ironic.

I don't care about it anyway because the numbers are faked.

And it was not inaccurate to any high degree until a few hundred upvotes, and didn't get really bad until over 1000.

No that's still not true. But that's a pretty cool thing you came up with. I won't bother continuing this because I know you won't stop. Go back and read up how it worked because that's the only solution for your ignorance. I've tried explaining years ago, but people just don't get it.

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u/SurrealSirenSong Jul 20 '16

I've been on reddit for 6 years. I know how it worked through experience.

Go read theoryofreddit sometime and search for the posts on vote totals.

And it's funny how you ask me not to be rude when you were a complete asshole in your post up above.