Karma system in the official forums?

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Reddit is long known to be a place where the majority opinion rules all, even when it is wrong. A karma system, just like modern SNS platforms, does nothing to make a community better; all it does, is making a community more niche, as the karma system marginalizes people who don't agree with the community's "mainstream" opinion, and encourages back-patting among people with the same opinion. Eventually, the community becomes one where only the mainstream opinion exists.

A karma system also doesn't distinguish between karma from humor versus karma from presenting useful information and thoughtful discourse. This means people who believe in karma points may end up trusting bad opinion from a completely uninformed source who just happens to have high karma from humor (and oftentimes bad humor borderlining on internet bullying).

Having more likes/upvotes doesn't make one right. We already know karma systems are better at building niche communities than at building inclusive communities.