There were many subreddits that did not allow participation unless someone had a karma over a certain threshold. For many of them the threshold was pretty low, only meant to stop brand new accounts and trolls, but still.
Additionally, the “people who farmed it” often did so because a reddit account with a high karma score was literally worth money to adspammers and people running bots.
The karma system contributed to what made reddit bad.
They are talking about karma as a thing you could collect, point totals for all posts added together displayed on your profile. Not the voting mechanism itself.
The most convincing argument that elon does a lot of cocaine is just listening to him speak in a less formal interview.
BUT! I don’t think he used to be actually smart, just lucky. Too many people assume “succesful” people had to have done something exceptional to earn it, but 99% of extremely wealthy people acquired that extreme wealth through a simple combination of luck and startup capital (which of course they have because they are lucky).
Only if you don’t clean them in my experience, and they aren’t particularly hard to clean. Just give em as good scrub when you clean the shower.
You can get shower mats with brush parts. No need to fold yourself in half, just shuffle your feet.
This is basically why I’m not really using the apps. Firefox mobile browser seems the most convenient way to browse IMO, at least for now. If I want to look at the local for sh.itjust.works I just open a new tab at sh.itjust.works.
Ok the person who said “sorry for not understanding something that is only popular with nerds” made me laugh because… Bro you are on reddit. You are using the outdated nerd gathering place to complain about nerds?
I will never in my life understand people that think of intelligence and curiosity as negative traits.
Consolidating communities could be done sort of like multireddits, basically just an organizational tool, which didn’t confuse people about the different rules, because it was clear which subreddit individual posts were on, and rules were clearly displayed in sidebars.
It could work in a different way, where the communities are more thoroughly merged, but there would be no reason for it to be anything but voluntary for the moderators of the individual communities. Presumably, the rules of the combined community would be something that would be discussed and decided on between the moderators of the individual communities that would enforce the rules.
I doubt they would be willing to let people host and control their own versions of federated facebook, and I’m wondering then what would make it “decentralized” exactly. Are they just using decentralized as a buzz word because they are using ActivityPub?
I don’t see how that addresses any of what I said. If anything this seems like this would mean the subreddits that blocked people with no karma weren’t even doing it to block trolls, just new users.
I didn’t care about my karma or any specific persons, I like to get into arguments about stuff and that is how you get downvoted. I just don’t like the behaviour a karma system motivated.