How does the account have positive karma at this point?
It's been years since I've been active on Reddit, but I believe that, unlike HN, comment scores don't affect karma, only submissions.
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#13How does the account have positive karma at this point?
It's been years since I've been active on Reddit, but I believe that, unlike HN, comment scores don't affect karma, only submissions.
Comment scores do affect karma, but the amount is softcapped. The more downvotes you get, the less each individual downvote counts towards your karma. It doesn't kick in until you're past a handful of downvotes, so a score of -5 will still drop your karma by 5, but a score of -50 won't drop your karma by the full 50.
If a comment is controversial (i.e. it gets both a lot of upvotes and a lot of downvotes) but still negative (e.g. you got 300 downvotes and 200 upvotes), you can even end up gaining karma overall because upvotes aren't softcapped the same way.
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#14How does the account have positive karma at this point?
It's been years since I've been active on Reddit, but I believe that, unlike HN, comment scores don't affect karma, only submissions.
There are two types of Karma, post and reply. However, both up and downvotes seem to have diminishing returns on your account totals even if they show up as the full amount on the post. I know I've had a few posts that got 300+ points but only impacted my account total by like 100 or 150.
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#15How does the account have positive karma at this point?
It's been years since I've been active on Reddit, but I believe that, unlike HN, comment scores don't affect karma, only submissions.
>comment scores don't affect karma, only submissions.
false. there are separate karma counters for submissions and comments.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
It couldn't matter less, people will still buy the game (and other EA products).
Yes! Here another interesting post: https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7cji8a...
> To clarify, you shouldn't feel like EA is "ignoring" you. They aren't. It's actually worse than them ignoring you.
Impressive. The whole thing is worth reading!
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#18I am reminded of I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right.
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#19There was another post which “did the math” a few days ago: unlocking a hero would take around 40 hours of play, modulo a few challenges and other purchases. There was concern about loot boxes and micro transactions affecting gameplay; I feel it’s safe to say those concerns were justified.
Just ran some very approximate numbers for League of Legends. That's also ~40 hours of play to unlock one new hero, except League gives large bonuses for the first win of the day and lowers prices for old characters as new ones are released. And offers a rotating lineup of free characters to try them out. And frequent missions that speed things up.
So... this $80 game is slightly less accessible than a free game where "access to all characters" was never part of the expectation. That's rough.
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#20Slightly off topic but I swore off EA games in the mid-2000s due to customer hostile behaviour. A few years later it was Rockstar due to GTA4 DRM. It's been really difficult not playing some of the big games, especially GTA5, but I just don't need that kind of stress in my life. Games are supposed to be fun.
Agreed. Sadly, the big-name publishers (EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Zenimax) are all pretty hostile and they've bought the majority of studios, so its reeeeeally hard to avoid them. I try, but sometimes I fail. Sometimes I don't even realise I failed until later. I did buy exclusively indie games for a while, though.