Mostly, it had no point, but to me it was durable evidence that people were interacting with my posts, even if they didn’t feel the need to reply. But, IIRC, subreddits could limit posting/replying/voting based on karma levels, and I know Reddit did take into account your total karma when doing rate limiting.
I never understood what was the point of karma…
When you die you can trade it for computer time.
now I’m interested!
Neurochemical feel good tool for contributing content to the platform
Mostly, it had no point, but to me it was durable evidence that people were interacting with my posts, even if they didn’t feel the need to reply. But, IIRC, subreddits could limit posting/replying/voting based on karma levels, and I know Reddit did take into account your total karma when doing rate limiting.