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> Your karma basically determines the visibility of any new post you try to make. User karma isn't factored into the site's sorting algorithms. Post score is,
by SquareWheel 4y ago
> Your karma basically determines the visibility of any new post you try to make.
User karma isn't factored into the site's sorting algorithms. Post score is, and that influences karma, but not the other way around.
edit: On reflection, you may have been referring to the ability to post, rather than the popularity of the post. In that case, the misunderstanding was mine.
- Gigachad 4y agoIt’s not part of the ranking algorithm, it’s part of the anti spam system. If you make a new account and comment, it’s almost never visible to anyone else. You have to warm up accounts with a few comments over a week before they start showing up.
- SquareWheel 4y agoThat's often true. Individual subreddits may filter new accounts or low-karma thresholds to prevent spam. The better subreddits will simply flag it for manual review rather than remove it outright.
- input_sh 4y agoAn alternative: create an account, don't use it for a while, use it. Mods essentially have two variables to work with: account age and karma. Some subs do set minimum karma (I've stumbled upon some that wouldn't accept below 2k karma), but most just go by account age to prevent banned users from going around the ban. And a tip for spotting karma farmers: just go to one of those big subs that accept screenshots of tweets. If the screenshot has engagements/timestamp cropped, click on a profile. Like 8 times out of 10 it's gonna be an older account that never posted before reposting one of the older popular submissions. EDIT: Here's an example that took me like 20s to find: https://www.reddit.com/user/DepartureSimples/ https://www.reddit.com/user/DepartureSimples/