i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

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Karma farming. Imagine all the people posting content for free.

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It was used as a threashold for posting on some communities, but mostly people are addicted to seeing the validation number go up and be higher than the one you disagree with.

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Maybe they mean the rules around karma, like how some subs won’t let you post until you have accumulated some karma within the sub.

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It was a way of cutting down spam/bots, and it worked.

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I never saw a count of my karma. Is it hidden from the user? This is now a mystery to me

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