One of the things platforms use to keep us coming back and investing more of our time in building their site for them, is Internet Points. They don’t do anything, but we still crave them.
On Reddit, these Internet Points are, of course, called “karma”
In moving on from Reddit, I’m burning over 80k karma.
It feels fine. I mean, it has no real value, and bots can scrounge up that amount of karma in an afternoon, but it still represents a sizable time investment.
How much are you burning, and how do you feel about it?
360k and ten years.
Such a waste of time. This was what I needed to make healthier choices. Less time spent scrolling, less time commenting. Lemmy is my methodone right now.
99,8k Karma. I would’ve loved the 100k but in the end I don’t really care The thing I will miss the most though is the shitposting from r/anarchychess
Not my account, but my bot, thebenshapirobot, just reached 600,000 karma in about a year and a half. I was always hoping it’d get to a million karma while trolling Ben Shapiro. The bot is currently off as part of the blackout, and frankly I have no idea if the API changes will affect it because I haven’t bothered to read them.
I’m not sure about 30k for a 3 year old account. Had multiple over 10 years. I just used to delete them when it got attention from the Admins.
Turns out saying fuck /u/gallowboob for his bullshit admin abuse makes them really mad at you. DMs and site wide bans from big subs is easily done.
Hope Reddit dies and they have no power.
When you were shitposting, I lurked moar. When you were drowning in internet points, I got RSI hammering F5. While you wasted your days in pursuit of rare pepes, I cultivated inner strength.
And now that absolutely nothing has happened, you have the audacity to come to me for federation?
I feel manipulated by the karma. It has no value and yet I care when i get downvoted. It’s a huge warning sign to get off reddit and into a healthier community.
I had like 20000 karma on some previous reddit account i deleted a few years back. Current one has 3000 karma or so. Because I post a lot, and I wrote things people agree with usually. But it’s a echo chamber, and once I start to limit myself to writing things that are “safe” from a karma point of view, I’m literally just supporting the entire karma system.
It’s something very Chinese about these points. They have this social system where citizens have a score, and if they get too low, they can’t get loans and whatnot. Pretty much what the show black mirror was showing, and China now has it.
35k karma, 11.5yrs.
I agree, though I don’t think we should limit this discussion to ‘1984-with-Chinese-characteristics’, lest we ignore the similar ways that western countries are sliding into authoritarianism. We have a vast body of literature warning us about these dystopic futures awaiting us, so it’ll be only us to blame if we don’t heed their warnings.
200k+ comment karma, from 75,000 comments. I’ve run PowerDeleteSuite, but it hasn’t quite got everything. I think I need to use the GDPR request csv files to get the comments that don’t display in the profile, but I’m looking for something that will automate this.
I’ll be filing a GDPR right-to-be-forgotten request, so Reddit has to do it for me.
Make sure you do a GDPR data request first. The csv files contain a lot of stuff (although they don’t contain any associated accounts they believe you have), in particular there are links to every comment. Your profile doesn’t show every single comment you’ve ever made, and if you just delete your account they will delete the user but leave the comments up.
So you have to do it carefully. PowerDeleteSuite is good, however as I say it only has access to what’s on your profile - many older comments with lower karma will be missed.
It should be straightforward to use the csv files to extract the links and edit + delete from there, in the same way that PSD does it from the profile, but I’m still looking for something that does that.
