At the same time, don't ban people for "brigading" just because they're unhappy with a moderator's shitty decisions. Seen that happen way too many times.
throwaway_ghast
joined 1 year ago
Agreed, to an extent. As long as they can be disabled so they don't clog up your feed, awards are a decent way to show your support. The problem with Reddit was they started to put far too much focus on useless awards and avatars, and not on actually improving the user experience.
The awkward turtle...
Exactly. I say this as someone who had nearly a million accumulated on the other site: karma points should only exist in the context of the current discussion, not as an overall tally for the user. Sure, it helps people quickly spot obvious trolls, but the downside is you end up with power-users (Gallowboob anyone?) who only repost content to watch the funny number go up. None of that here, for the love of god.
Hear hear!
A lot of former Digg users felt the same way when they transitioned to reddit back in the day. It was a new and scary ecosystem, but it quickly became natural to use.
Blackout needs to be longer than 1-2 days to really be effective. Fuck /u/spez.
Coming from California...good luck to you guys.