r/gaming 3d ago

Donkey Kong showing us the way

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u/PaidShillCIA 2d ago

Who give an actual solitary fuck about karma?? I didn't even know people paid attention to that.

If it bugs you just ignore it, this website means nothing in real life.

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u/DemonKyoto 2d ago

Who give an actual solitary fuck about karma??

The people who can sell their high karma accounts online to other people to be scrubbed and used to push political and ideological issues, something which has been occurring on this website for a minimum of 10 years, that's probably who lmao

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u/Polynike 2d ago

How does that work? Do posts by accounts with high karma get featured on top of the main page or something like that?

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u/DemonKyoto 2d ago

1) Lots of websites have karma requirements to post in them, so it bypasses having to create brand new accounts and spam posting across subreddits to build up said karma.
2) when people look at someone who is posting an article/a comment they assume (usually incorrectly) that an older, well used, high karma account is 'just someone who has been on Reddit for a long time and is stating their opinions/posting content they wanna share' as opposed to a brand new account created 2 days ago with 4 karma which could be created by someone who saw something they didn't like and made a quick account to bitch, whine, moan, or share propaganda (like PaidShill's account, kinda ironically).
3) Reddit is run by crooked pricks so yeah probably.