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Entirely depends on subreddit in question > It does, though. Your karma basically determines the visibility of any new post you try to make. And low-karma or n
by ilyt 4y ago
Entirely depends on subreddit in question
> It does, though. Your karma basically determines the visibility of any new post you try to make. And low-karma or new accounts are de facto shadowbanned.
It's used more as protection from SEO spammers and this is just unfortunate side effect for new users.
Other problem is that karma is global which basically means user on popular subreddits will gain it quickly so any karma-based filtering is doomed to fail anyway
- NBJack 4y agoAnd it's not a great protection system at all. Just like how content generators are gaming Google search, there is a problem now with bots that find what is popular and repost it later (with a wording change) for karma farming.