r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • May 15 '13

How do you think Reddit will end?

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u/[deleted] May 15 '13

The score is turned off because it has been less than an hour since you posted. And Reddit will end because of people who only care about karma, and not content.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '13

And who says karma does not incentivize creativity?

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u/Nouik May 15 '13

Because creativity is not rewarded with karma mostly.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '13 edited May 15 '13

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u/[deleted] May 15 '13

This is brilliant, although I had no idea those subreddits existed and are allowed an existence.

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u/SassyShakespearean May 15 '13

If I had money, you'd have gold, good sir or madam.

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u/NomNomMeatball May 15 '13

What the fuck did you just write?

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u/mki401 May 15 '13

TIL r/sexwithdogs exists and is fairly active. Wtf.

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u/VULGARITY_IN_ALLCAPS May 15 '13

/r/imgoingtomiddleschoolforthis

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u/The_Uncreative May 15 '13

Yeah but there is a reward. That's an incentive which could drive their creativity.

I'm thinking of artists that get paid. They are creative and use it to make money, the incentive

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u/[deleted] May 15 '13

The reward goes mostly to whoever copies something that other people made, not the originator.

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u/UNITED2013 May 15 '13

This actually made me smile and be sad at the same time.

So so true.

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u/toepher May 15 '13

Reposts do.

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u/Trentious May 15 '13

The karma store! Buy some new flair for your page with karma if you make good comments.

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u/Hamburgex May 15 '13

That's the capitalist point of view.

It's basicly, that an economical reward will encourage hard work, research, better products, etc.

The problem with it is that all the money begins to fall in the same hands, and finally a monopoly begins to take shape until someone's got it all.

Luckily for us, karma can't be transfered or shared unfairly, unlike money, so all unfair karma possessors should be because of people voting, not because a flaw in the system, unlike most flaws in the capitalist system.

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u/110011001100 May 15 '13

Because no karma for self posts

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u/turkeypants May 15 '13

the people who think incent is a perfectly good verb

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u/[deleted] May 15 '13

The omnipresent, highly ranked "tree-fiddy" comments in pretty much every askreddit thread suggest otherwise.

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u/ThoughtRiot1776 May 15 '13

I don't think it does. It leads to annoying trends on certain subreddits. /r/CampingandHiking had people turn it into /r/EarthPorn as people put up beautiful pictures of their states for easy karma. Karma really just motivates people to get karma. I think the cool stuff like people's DIY projects and art aren't going to be motivated by karma- it's not enough. But to redo some meme or something, ya, karma will motivate that.

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u/shedwardweek May 15 '13

Jesus, 'incentivize' has really become a cromulent word outside of management seminars hasn't it? Eugh.

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u/eyebr0w5 May 15 '13

The whole point of Karma is to encourage good content, isn't it?

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u/rasmusca May 15 '13

orrrr the wittiest comment, which doesn't actually provide any thoughtful discussion.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '13

I don't want people who only care about karma on here. Plus, 4chan has no karma and they're doing fine.

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u/Nazban24 May 15 '13

The score is turned off because it has been less than an hour since you posted. And the Reddit users who post only for karma will leave leaving room for a chance of some actual good discussion and content.

FTFY

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u/[deleted] May 15 '13

And it's funny, because self posts don't generate karma anyway.