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Right but reddit created the karma system and allows mods to set karma limits. Why did they allow this ?
Does it though ? Because a bot can post more and by virtue of being a bot has nowhere to be and nothing to do. Let's say it takes 1 hour to get 10 karma. A human with school and or work can only to deal with might only have like 2 hours to post a bot can post 24/7 365.
If that is really the issue then why not just have a captcha on post ? I know bots are better at dealing with captchas but those are still expensive.
Reddit relies on unpaid moderators to manage the subreddits. Antagonizing them by taking away their options for moderation is not a great idea for Reddit (as the API changes have shown).
Bots have ways to get around karma limits, for example by just reposting some popular memes for a few days after account creation and only starting to post spam a few weeks later. But that still means there's an additional difficulty to posting spam and that there's time for automated systems to possibly kick in before the bot gets the chance to post spam.
That sounds like a nightmare TBH, I'd take a Karma limit any day over having to do a captcha every time to post.
I'm also curious, which subs did you want to post in where Karma limits are so high you couldn't reach them? I've never seen them be much of a hurdle. You can easily get 1k karma on a single comment just by echoing a popular sentiment or making a mediocre joke.
The thing is though the captcha takes like what a minute to solve meanwhile there is no way to gaurentee you get karma.
I don't want to have to spend all day posting snarky replies on ask reddit to maybe get lucky and get karma.
You can't easily get 1k Karma on a single post again there is no way to gaurentee kamra you can post until the end of tie and there is no way to gaurentee anyone up-votes your post
IME it's very easy to get 1k kharma through commenting if you do it regularly. It's practically guaranteed unless you're actively trying to get downvoted or are only commenting in subs with extremely low engagement.
This, especially if you’re like me and reply to other people mostly. I often respond to some of the top comments/interesting comments because I enjoy talking to people and “piggy backing” absolutely can net you insane karma. The key is getting in on popular threads early and piggy backing on a top comment. My account I killed when they killed Apollo was well into the hundreds of thousands of comment karma