Yup. People used to farm downvotes and compete to get the lowest overall karma. So they capped it per comment and at -500 as the lowest possible for an account.
There's a cap to karma loss from downvotes designed to minimise the harm from any single comment.
That's also why some downvote harvesting accounts wind up with positive karma, you might get 3,000 downvotes and 500 upvotes on a controversial comment, but that translates to +490 net karma.
I found it really strange. My karma was reduced to 1 and now, after abt 1 hr, i recheck, all my karma is back. I am new to reddit, so i really don't know much about the karma system.
I thought I read Reddit was valued around at $8bn. Maybe they were talking in Zimbabwean $$. Cause the video loading system, the volunteer mods, admin hiring process, and these constant crashes definitely doesn't give the feel of a multi billion $$ enterprise.
Latest valuation is $10bn. Honestly I don't know how. The tech could be better like you mentioned but I'd also hazzard a guess the revenue isn't that high. They run minimal ads and I can't see reddit gold or the likes contributing that much. But hey, maybe I'm wrong.
Its a multi billion dollar enterprise because like any other social media, its used to manipulate people and advertise.
The platform doesnt benefit the users. Reddit has done a good job at sowing division and spreading disinformation on both ends of the political spectrum.
The server doing the karma tally probably can't be reached right now. Reddit status says everything is fine but I don't believe that, especially with the number of issues over the last week.
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Wait why did this happen?