I noticed my ‘karma’ score dropped significantly today from 1:1 to a random, far lower number. (I’m referring to my account total score.)
Earlier my post score was over 1000 and now it is ~300.
Anyone know why this is? A bug, perhaps?
Edit: judging by the enormously helpful silent downvotes, I’m assuming the karma scores I’m referring to are limited to Voyager (my app of choice).
Really I wonder why we need ‘karma’ scores, or visible ones anyway. I understand why upvoting and downvoting posts is useful but having a user karma score just leads to all the karma farming, playing to the gallery to ‘earn points’ that could be harmful to normal conversation on Reddit.
When you start gamifying a system people start treating it like a game and that makes things weird on what should just be a normal discussion forum. In my opinion anyway
It’s useful for quickly identifying whether somebody may be participating in a conversation in bad faith. If somebody starts questioning something you’ve posted somewhere and you see they have -2000 points, you can probably assume they’re not worth entertaining with a reply.