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I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai

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Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai

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Post by pugworthy »

minimaxir wrote: post #16

This is a reminder that account karma on Reddit and Hacker News doesn't really mean anything and doesn't make your posts more valuable, or give it any additional benefit in the algorithms. (I say that as someone with 153k Reddit karma and a user ranked #57 on the HN leaderboards: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders ) Going truly viral on Reddit/HN is still ultimately random as well, which is why reposting (within re…

> ...doesn't really mean anything and doesn't make your posts more valuable..

True for posts, and true for comments if they get upvotes. Downvotes however make comments less valuable. I imagine some people see the gray/faded comments and just presume low value content, which may not be the case.

Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai

#52

Post by cestith »

sixstringtheory wrote: post #35
minimaxir wrote: post #16

This is a reminder that account karma on Reddit and Hacker News doesn't really mean anything and doesn't make your posts more valuable, or give it any additional benefit in the algorithms. (I say that as someone with 153k Reddit karma and a user ranked #57 on the HN leaderboards: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders ) Going truly viral on Reddit/HN is still ultimately random as well, which is why reposting (within re…

HN bestows various abilities once you pass certain karma thresholds. It's the only site I know of that does this and I think it really helps keep a better community. It's a direct counterexample to the other comments saying karma is meaningless and isn't or shouldn't be used as a proxy for trust. It might be misplaced trust in some cases, but it is trust nonetheless.

Slashdot and StackOverflow give you more capabilities with a higher reputation. Slashdot likes to give moderator points to people with higher reputations, and to people who metamoderate frequently which is itself guarded by reputation. Your votes are recorded at StackOverflow with no real reputation, but they only count for or against a post if you yourself have a high enough score - I forget what they call your reputation/karma/whatever there.

Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai

#53

Post by mixmax »

jcelerier wrote: post #32
ASalazarMX wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But it did make me think about just how easy it is to farm karma on Reddit, and how useless it is as a proxy for "trust" or "reputation" or anything other than what it is - fake internet points. More than fake internet points, it's a distilled popularity contest, and we know popular people isn't necessarily trustworthy. Reddit calling it karma gives it more credit than it deserves.

> Reddit calling it karma gives it more credit than it deserves. I remember PhpBB and vBulletin forums having karma plug-ins back in 2005, this isn't something invented by reddit at all

Slashdot had something similar many years earlier

Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai

#54

Post by [deleted] »

sixstringtheory wrote: post #35
minimaxir wrote: post #16

This is a reminder that account karma on Reddit and Hacker News doesn't really mean anything and doesn't make your posts more valuable, or give it any additional benefit in the algorithms. (I say that as someone with 153k Reddit karma and a user ranked #57 on the HN leaderboards: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders ) Going truly viral on Reddit/HN is still ultimately random as well, which is why reposting (within re…

HN bestows various abilities once you pass certain karma thresholds. It's the only site I know of that does this and I think it really helps keep a better community. It's a direct counterexample to the other comments saying karma is meaningless and isn't or shouldn't be used as a proxy for trust. It might be misplaced trust in some cases, but it is trust nonetheless.

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Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai

#55

Post by bromuro »

elliotbnvl wrote: post #25
minimaxir wrote: post #16

This is a reminder that account karma on Reddit and Hacker News doesn't really mean anything and doesn't make your posts more valuable, or give it any additional benefit in the algorithms. (I say that as someone with 153k Reddit karma and a user ranked #57 on the HN leaderboards: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders ) Going truly viral on Reddit/HN is still ultimately random as well, which is why reposting (within re…

Username checks out.

I see this kind of comments quite often - what is the point checking out the username? Is an underground internet meme i’ve been missing? (No native English speaker here)

Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai

#56

Post by sixstringtheory »

cestith wrote: post #52
sixstringtheory wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN bestows various abilities once you pass certain karma thresholds. It's the only site I know of that does this and I think it really helps keep a better community. It's a direct counterexample to the other comments saying karma is meaningless and isn't or shouldn't be used as a proxy for trust. It might be misplaced trust in some cases, but it is trust nonetheless.

Slashdot and StackOverflow give you more capabilities with a higher reputation. Slashdot likes to give moderator points to people with higher reputations, and to people who metamoderate frequently which is itself guarded by reputation. Your votes are recorded at StackOverflow with no real reputation, but they only count for or against a post if you yourself have a high enough score - I forget what they call your repu…

Ah, how could I forget StackOverflow?? Thanks for reminding me.

Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai

#58

Post by minimaxir »

bromuro wrote: post #55
elliotbnvl wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Username checks out.

I see this kind of comments quite often - what is the point checking out the username? Is an underground internet meme i’ve been missing? (No native English speaker here)

It's a Reddit meme.

Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai

#59

Post by elliotbnvl »

bromuro wrote: post #55
elliotbnvl wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Username checks out.

I see this kind of comments quite often - what is the point checking out the username? Is an underground internet meme i’ve been missing? (No native English speaker here)

It means that the username is appropriate to the body of the comment. It's very common on Reddit.

Re: I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai

#60

Post by ryandrake »

mixmax wrote: post #53
jcelerier wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Reddit calling it karma gives it more credit than it deserves. I remember PhpBB and vBulletin forums having karma plug-ins back in 2005, this isn't something invented by reddit at all

Slashdot had something similar many years earlier

I think they even called it Karma--back in the late 90's. I bet that's where the term originated.
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