On reddit I was a lurker that posted like once or twice a year, but ever since joining lemmy I’ve started posting multiple times a day.
On reddit I was a lurker that posted like once or twice a year, but ever since joining lemmy I’ve started posting multiple times a day.
Wouldn’t that in return cause the subs without those restrictions to end up receiving larger amounts of low-effort/value comments, from folks just throwing out comments randomly to try and bump their karma up enough to comment in the subs they actually want to participate in? Which means more subs instituting comment karma restrictions, and so the cycle continues?
To be fair, I don’t know what the correct answer is when bots and trolls are such a problem, but I do think it was super frustrating from a user’s perspective and discourages participation from people who would otherwise want to participate.
Not really, because low value comments might not get upvoted, or even downvoted in some places. What games the system is subreddits like FreeKarma4U which were specifically created for that purpose and don’t mind low effort posts/comments. The answer to that has been mods of those restricted subreddits banning users participating in those karma farming communities, but it’s really not a good way to address the problem.
In the end, as always, it’s the bad people who keep ruining everything for the good ones.