"Karma is Reddit’s voting system. The posts with the most karma are the ones you see on the front page. Reddit tracks how much karma each of its users has earned, too.

Next to every Reddit post or comment are upvote and downvote buttons. By clicking one of these, you are giving either positive or negative karma to the post. Positive karma increases the number of points a post has, while negative karma decreases that number.

Reddit uses karma as a way of showing the best possible content to users. Upvoted comments and posts with a ton of points end up at the top of the page, which leads to even more people seeing and upvoting them. Downvoted comments end up at the bottom of the thread. If a post is downvoted enough, it eventually becomes hidden, and you have to click to expand it.

You can view each Redditor’s total karma on their profile. This karma is divided between post karma, which is the total points of all the threads they posted, and comment karma, which is the total points of the comments they submitted to existing threads.

Karma doesn’t have any intrinsic value. Because of this, Redditors often joke that all they’re getting are “imaginary internet points.” [However], having a lot of karma across multiple posts makes you appear more trustworthy..." ~ Vann Vicente, How-To-Geek

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What Is Reddit Karma and How Do I Get It?

Karma is Reddit’s voting system. The posts with the most karma are the ones you see on the front page. Reddit tracks how much karma each of its users has earned, too. We’ll explain how Reddit karma works and how you get it.

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Still can't get over the fact that u/ProjectBibliotherapy amassed 10,000 karma points in the past two weeks! In other words, my reposts from the Instagram archives have received atleast 10,000 upvotes, and have sparked (mostly) 'good-faith interactions' in the comments... in 14 days!!

It's been a pretty good fortnight :) Hope you enjoy scrolling through this week's wholesome highlights from a few of my favourite subreddits.

[Also, there is an announcement about a new reading experiment in the post-script. Sign up, show up :)]

DAY 1

r/QuotesPorn #8

DAY 2

r/gratefuldead #2 | r/QuotesPorn #9

DAY 3

r/Cricket #5

DAY 4

r/QuotesPorn #10 | r/DontPanic #1

DAY 5

The Collected Adventures of Dunno and Friends: Book One

Originally brought to life in Russian by Nikolai Nosov in 1953, Dunno and his Flower Town gang enthralled kids of all ages across the world for decades before disappearing off the face of the Earth with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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r/nostalgia #1

DAY 6

r/bookporn #2 | r/books #1 [Jasper Fforde AMA]

DAY 7

“Don’t Eat Before Reading This,” by Anthony Bourdain

The late chef’s 1999 essay about working in Manhattan restaurants. “Gastronomy is the science of pain,” he writes. “It was the unsavory side of professional cooking that attracted me to it in the first place.”

newyorker.com

r/comicbooks #1 | r/QuotesPorn #11

That's all for now! If you're curious about exploring Reddit, do bookmark this handy guide by the 'mildly interesting' Sneaky Artist...

Reddit 101 — The Sneaky Artist

Ideas for how to use Reddit.

sneakyartist.com

r/mildlyinteresting - I like to make little drawings of people that I see

116,402 votes and 1,698 comments so far on Reddit

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Also, ScrollStack officially is now stck.me! More on that in the next letter to the reader.

Cheers for now!! - Nitin

PS. Launching a new experiment with the froody Chuck Gopalakrishnan this weekend :D
Feel free to add yourself to the reader list...

Edit: Now Live :D Help yourself 👇

Frood For Thought: Your daily read

A channel where your hoopy admins, Chuck & Nitin, give you one curated article a day to help build a reading habit (or maintain the one you already have!) Want to invite someone? t.me/FroodForThought by @chuckofalltrades / @projectbibliotherapy

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