• @geekosaur
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    111 year ago

    I don’t think that’s the problem. I think it’s mostly because it still has way less people (easier to mod), and also it doesn’t show user karma, so there’s no incentive to karma farm.

    • @psilves1
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      41 year ago

      Karma is so pointless and I’ve never understood why you’d ‘farm’ it

      • @dditty
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        41 year ago

        Higher reputation reddit accounts are sold and used to marketers for shilling. Old accounts with lots of karma fetch a higher price. Some ppl just farm karma for their egos.

        • @Jacinto2702
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          31 year ago

          But I love watching the number go up… It feeds me the approval I didn’t receive from my parents.

      • @Korne127
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        21 year ago

        The human brain loves rising numbers. The pure reason idle games are popular.

        • @Hoffen
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          21 year ago

          Yeah, Gamification is a huge problem for a lot of sites/apps. It makes it a competition and brings in people who normally wouldn’t bother to engage in it. And turns it into a competition, which in turn makes advertisers try to get the people doing well to promote their product. And before you know it everything is about getting the biggest amount of upvotes/likes/followers no matter the cost.

      • @marswarrior
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        1 year ago

        They want to put that on their resume lol. like stackloverflow. Dear employer, look how many upvotes I got on this 15 year old meme!

        • @psilves1
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          21 year ago

          At least SO scores are a little more relevant

          • @marswarrior
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            11 year ago

            Not anymore since all the new answers there are from chatGPT

        • @psilves1
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          11 year ago

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      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        It makes an account look authentic, which makes recommendations that account offers more genuine. E.g. advertising, political astroturfing.

        There’s so much of that on Reddit with accounts that look real but aren’t. When I started using reddit (like 15 years ago) I was legitimately able to trust most recommendations (I still own and use many of the products I picked up and consider them good decisions), but it’s been at least 7 or 8 years where you absolutely can’t.