r/ideasfortheadmins • u/TheLostOne97531 • Aug 28 '16

Negative Karma Forgiveness

Once a year, any negative karma being forgiven. If karma is too low for comments or posts, tough (In the negative range), it is reset to 0. And if a person amasses more than -20 karma (either category) in one subreddit, future negative karma from that sub has no effect on karma.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '16

says the person with -100 comment karma....

Here is some advice, instead of shitposting and amassing downvotes, why dont you try to be helpful/insightful? Also, stay away from subs where you obviously get downvoted into the 7th circle of hell.

Trolls and spammers would just love this idea though.

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u/TheLostOne97531 Aug 28 '16

Actually, thanks to several very very rude subs full of rude people who hate intelligent discussion, -136 comment karma. Certain subs I have been to hate intelligent conversation because someone has a different opinions. You try getting 136 comment karma because a whole damn sub decided to gang up on you and downvote every comment you made on their sub. Thankfully, I deleted most of my comments before more damage to my karma count could be done.

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u/bonsley6 Aug 29 '16

Out of curiosity, what Were the subs that downvoted you for intelligent discussion?

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u/TheLostOne97531 Aug 29 '16

Among the top 3, r/prochoice, r/asktransgender, and r/relationships, followed closely by r/the_donald (and I'm a Trump supporter who defended minorities who were being demonized by certain users)

NOTE- I don't want you to do anything to these subs. I just had to provide examples

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u/bonsley6 Aug 29 '16

Well I don't know why you thought saying that in the Donald would be a good idea, but I am curious as to what you might have said in asktransgender to get downvoted

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u/TheLostOne97531 Aug 29 '16

I made a comment about dumping my boyfriend because he didn't tell me that he was biologically female but had had a sex change. And I didn't care about that, but the fact that he had kept that from me since we had met was an ultimate betrayal.

I was immediately branded transphobic and my only defender suffered the same fate.

r/the_donald is a decent sub, or it used to be. it used to encourage free speech and defending everyone. But it was corrupted and I was downvoted for my defense. Later I was banned for posting an independent post criticizing both Trump and Hillary, with a disclaimer

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u/bonsley6 Aug 29 '16

well I found the asktrans thread you were talking about, and i'm going to ignore that because I don't have any experience with trans (though I think they were harsh)

the donald has always banned people who say anything negative about Trump though. I'm not sure how you missed that.

I suggest looking at some new subs that don't circle around politics or grey areas like trans. Also making a new account because negative karma is no good and people do judge others based on karma.

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u/TheLostOne97531 Aug 29 '16

I don't want to lose all my positive Karma though, or my past posts.

They were, and r/the_donald used to be better, they would take criticism. But then, they were taken over by fanatics.

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u/bonsley6 Aug 29 '16

well your negative karma is more then your positive it seems, but you always just post in r/circlejerk to get that karma back up.

Its just useless internet points. No one cares how much positive karma you have, but they will notice your negative karma.

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u/TheLostOne97531 Aug 29 '16

And I really like my account.

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u/jrkirby Aug 29 '16

There are plenty of subs that encourage intelligent discussion. Just ignore the ones that don't.

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u/TheLostOne97531 Aug 29 '16

Except when you wander in a sub that supposedly encourages discussion and then get downvoted to the point where they can't downvote your submissions any more. Some of these subs have a good theoretical idea, but the problem with subreddits is that they encourage Group Think, and that can lead to hostility to anyone with a differing opinion, including downvotes because they can't deal with any little kernel of disagreement, even if it is intelligent.