kim819•13d ago

Hit 10,000 karma on Reddit and it felt weirder than I expected

So I hit the 10k karma mark last Tuesday on my main account, and I thought I'd feel like some big deal or something lol. But honestly it was just this random number that popped up on my screen while I was sitting in my car waiting for my coffee order at Dunkin in Baltimore. I realized I've been posting dumb jokes and cat photos for like two years straight to get here, and half of my top comments are about how much I hate rush hour traffic. What even is karma anyway? It's not like I can cash it in for a free latte or anything. Has anyone else ever hit a milestone online and just kinda stared at it like 'okay, now what'?

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wesley_martin13d ago

Question whether it's really that serious man, it's just fake internet points.

lane.eric13d ago

So you're saying people should just ignore it when someone spends hours making up stories or faking screenshots for attention? @wesley_martin I get that karma doesn't pay bills, but it's not really about the points themselves. When people lie for upvotes, it cheapens the whole community and makes it harder to trust anything you read here. That kind of behavior spreads like a virus and eventually the subreddit becomes nothing but fake posts and inside jokes. I've seen good forums die because nobody called out the obvious BS anymore. So yeah, sometimes it IS that serious when the lies start taking over.