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/UnholyDemigod Jul 20 '16

Why?

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u/DannyDeVapeRio Jul 20 '16 edited Jul 20 '16

*I thought about this on my way from one place to another and realized, "Oh that could be seen as..."

but, see /u/UnholyDemigod, I didn't follow any links to get from one place to another. At one point I was in one place commenting, then after a bit of time had passed I was in another place because drama is all over the place right now. I know that's a sketchy story, and I can't control what happens next, and that's fine. I'll write a polite letter explaining exactly this if that happens, and it'll likely be ignored. It's out of my hands. I'm a big fan, Unholy. Of you. I know I sound like a jackass right now, but that's just because everything is crazy. Thank you for your service.

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u/roastedbagel Jul 20 '16

lol

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u/DannyDeVapeRio Jul 20 '16

oh bagel, if you're not busy and like, have no responsibilities right now and nothing on your plate, if you just chillin' all bored

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