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I think you're looking too far into the word. In the real world, Reddit points are about as meaningful as how much Farmville cash or crops you have.
by watty 14y ago
I think you're looking too far into the word. In the real world, Reddit points are about as meaningful as how much Farmville cash or crops you have.
- Peroni 14y agoI disagree. I'm a mod on a reasonably large subreddit and I regularly get approached about promoting certain brands or blogs. I've never accepted any of the offers as I don't agree with gaming the system but undoubtedly plenty of people have. Marketeers are getting wise to Reddit. They know if they hit a sweetspot the reddit can make or break their brand over night. Soliciting "reddit celebrities" is naturally going to be a tactic many people employ.
- sergiotapia 14y agoI'm a long time Reddit and mod for a big subreddit - it's not meaningless. There are TONS of perks you get when having a high comment karma count. Physical, actual benefits.
- smackfu 14y agoPhysical like people send you free t-shirts?
- fghh45sdfhr3 14y agoThat's what I am thinking. But part of me is hoping it is more like going to a bar and saying: Hey babe, ever heard of reddit?
- joezydeco 14y agoJust out of curiosity, what was his karma count?
- huherto 14y agoHola Sergio. Just out of curiosity. Could you comment on what are those perks? Thanks
- sergiotapia 14y agoSorry, I can't but the perks are small enough to not be a big deal for the sender but big enough to be useful to me. ;)
- potatolicious 14y agoUseless != meaningless. Reddit karma is (mostly) useless, but I think the poster's point is that they are meaningful to a great number of people, otherwise they wouldn't be accumulated and fought over with such zeal. People's egos are tremendously important to them, and the people around them.
- TheGateKeeper 14y agoPeople have fought over meaningless things since the dawn of time. The crusades come to mind in that respect.
- beering 14y agoAgain, the point is that these things that people fight over have meaning, even if they can't really be used for anything. The crusades arguably were fought over things that had a lot of meaning, even if they didn't have a lot of utility. It'd be hard to argue that the crusades had no meaning.
- weego 14y agoThis is where I don't get the duality of how people perceive the internet as a medium. We want the products we build that aren't (to counter your definition) "in the real world" to give us salary, a future, wealth, whatever... but you flip the viewpoint and someone doing something they wish to do "not in the real world" is completely meaningless (and this implicitly has no value). The fact that people achieve A surely means there are endless scenarios where B is not true.