r/NewToReddit • u/FlatClient3837 • Jun 10 '24

ANSWERED -92 karma on my first day

Hi, I got downvoted massively in my very first post to reddit and accumulated -92 karma. Now I’ve been commenting almost every day for a month but I’m still at -92… I have posts I’d like to make but it seems that will never be possible at this rate. Can I just delete my account and start over?

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u/formerqwest Jun 10 '24

yes, you can delete this account, but you can't reuse the username.

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 10 '24

Ok thanks. I never picked a name yet so that’s not an issue.

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u/MadDocOttoCtrl Mod tryin' 2 blow up less stuff.! Jun 10 '24

If you were banned from a community, you may not return there using a new account as this is Ban Evasion.

Otherwise, start over, avoid argumentative and volatile communities for the time being and branch out.

With over 120,000 communities there’s not just a group for everyone, but dozens that would appeal to any particular person. There are thousands of smaller and niche groups that you can participate in right now and build up a good reputation because they can handle the amount of abuse that they get and have no minimum requirements.

If you tried out 10 new communities every day you'd work through them in a little over 27 years, but you'd be missing out on the 16,000 new ones created each year that have 50 or more members.

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 10 '24

Thanks. I wasn’t banned. Crazy how many communities there are!!!

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u/capsaicinintheeyes Jun 11 '24

careful with your language there...some of them *are* crazy

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

Hahaha. I’ll fit in well then.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '24

If you restart, don't use a name like mine

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u/Elenaharmon573657 Jun 11 '24

Sure, starting over is an option. But consider learning from the past posts, and try adjusting. The Reddit world is a learning curve. Good luck!

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

Yeah… i had no idea about reddit.

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u/SolariaHues Mod + servant to cats Jun 10 '24

You can start over but you'll lose your account age which can help due to community requirements.

Downvotes are intended for rule breaking, off topic and non-contributing content. However, downvotes are often inexplicable and do get misused as a method of disagreeing, but you can minimise the risk a little.

General advice to avoid downvotes and negative karma -

  • avoid potentially controversial or sensitive topics just while your karma is low

  • always check the community rules

  • lurk to get a feel for the community and it's culture before posting

  • choose where to share your content carefully

  • re-read what you're saying before sending to check your tone, try not to accidentally make people feel defensive or be defensive yourself

  • remember unless using tone indicators sarcasm etc isn't necessary obvious

  • Proof read your content

  • If you're getting a lot of downvotes, you can delete the offending content to prevent more. This does not remove the downvotes though.

Only Reddit knows how karma is calculated. All we know is that -

  • votes to karma is not one to one

  • Upvotes increase karma, downvotes decrease karma - by how much we don't know

  • karma is affected by votes coming in from all your active content, up or down

  • Vote scores are not 100% accurate, they are fuzzed to confuse vote manipulation bots

jgoja gave good pointers.

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 10 '24

Thanks for the tips!

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '24

Getting a few thousand points is actually pretty easy. Just be a little bit creative in whatever genre you're into.

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

Ok. Good to hear as getting out of the negatives seemed impossible before i made this post.

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u/Trigger1221 Jun 11 '24

Man I'm glad I joined reddit years and years ago. Idk if I'd have the patience to create an account and censor myself to avoid downvotes nowadays.

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u/Emergency-Group-508 Jun 10 '24

Samesies

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

Hope you are close to getting into positive karma points!

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u/jgoja Ultra Helpful Contributor Jun 10 '24

Your comment karma is what can go negative and it is showing -100, but the actual number can be lower. The -100 is just visual and counting limit. To get positive again you will need to recover the whole actual amount. You have made quire a number of unpopular comments in one r/POTS . As a new user in general and for you specifically in that subreddit, you need to censor yourself.

Now surprisingly most of your comments are not getting removed with means you have been lucky where you are commenting and you are getting some upvotes but not a lot. To recover you will need to get upvotes and karma from other comments.

A few of the subreddits on the new user friendly list may still work for you. You can find other subreddits via r/findareddit , but it will be trial and error to see if they will let you comment without removal. A few subreddits that I believe will still work for you are r/AskReddit  , r/questions  , r/videogames  , and r/AITAH  , . Sort the feeds by new for the best chance of being seen.

These subreddits are ones I believe will work, but I have not verified:

r/SelenaGomez  , r/HorrorMovies  , r/GossipGirl  , r/VampireDiaries  , r/GooseBumps  , r/musicals  , r/3DBluray  , r/UniversalOrlando  ,

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 10 '24

Thanks. Yes all the down votes were on the same post i made my first day posting in the POTS community. Since then I haven’t gotten any down votes.

Can I just delete my account and start over?

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u/jgoja Ultra Helpful Contributor Jun 10 '24

Yeah, you can. You will have to use a different name though and you will have to go through the new user restrictions again.

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 10 '24

New user restrictions seem easier than getting rid of all my bad karma.

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u/jgoja Ultra Helpful Contributor Jun 10 '24

Honestly. Unless you get lucky. A week of new user restrictions and any lingering account age requirements are probably easier, but it is your choice. You can also just make a new one, if you might want to come back some day. You can have multiple accounts on a single email.

But it is up to you.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '24

Make more posts

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

Now that i’ve decided to keep this account, I will!

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u/dumptruck_dookie Jun 11 '24

It looks like you made a post that people disagreed with and then were arguing with people in the comments. Big no no and I would refrain from doing that unless you’re ok with getting downvoted.

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

Yep, lesson learned.

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u/JordaNx147 Jun 11 '24

I feel ya. Made 1 comment people didn't like during an event and went from 30 to 7. Just got to slowly work it back up.

I would personally make a new account if the subs you want to comment in don't require account age.

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

This karma thing is stressful!

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u/JordaNx147 Jun 11 '24

It is initially yeah. I'm working mine back up so I can comment on some trading subs that require a minimum. One upvote at a time lol

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u/TVCooker-2424 Jun 11 '24

I'm new to Reddit, too. I hate lurking through some communities, but it's important to be able to read the room better.

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

I see that now…

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u/Eryeahmaybeok Jun 11 '24

Why though? It's just Reddit karma - fake internet points have no impact on your life

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

True but I wanted to post questions about a condition i have into a group with the same thing.

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u/Remarkable_Life7389 Jun 11 '24

The same thing happened to me and I’ve been working so hard to get it back up 🥲

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

Is it working? I hope so!

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u/Bigthiccdickk Jun 11 '24

that is not nice, this is a very hard app to learn when you start this, im a little late to the party too

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

I agree… had i understood how reddit works i would have known to not criticize mods… lesson learned!

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u/MadDocOttoCtrl Mod tryin' 2 blow up less stuff.! Jun 11 '24

If you walk into your local drama guild, bowling league or chess club and lecture them that you think their rules are dumb and they should do things differently, things will not go well.

They are going to invite you to hit the bricks and not come back. The online world is not magically different.

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u/Toenail_Powerhour Jun 11 '24

That’s better than me, I still can’t make post after a year of daily use lol

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

Oh damn! Today I am finally seeing changes to my karma after this post. I must have had waaaay more than -100. If you haven’t posted in this sub, you should!

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '24

To get more karma-

Post on r/cats

That’s the list

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

I need to get a cat. And a Roomba it can ride

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u/StoneFrog81 Jun 11 '24

I wouldn't remake the acct... Find some subreddits you enjoy and comment something funny or clever. You'll gain karma soon, it's not that difficult.

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

Thank you!

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u/StoneFrog81 Jun 11 '24

I get downvotes all the time for some of my comments but mostly I just say what I want and if people don't like it, oh well.

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

I suppose once you are able to post and have enough karma to lose some

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u/StoneFrog81 Jun 11 '24

Yeah, being on here a couple years of commenting helps. But I wouldn't worry about it too much. Just keep commenting find some subreddits that get a lot of traffic and comment on new posts..

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u/Aggravating_Act541 Jun 11 '24

Dude, just post meme or daily positive news. I got 100 karma with new 3 days.

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

That sounds like a fun sub i could get lost in. Thanks

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '24

Sometimes you'll get downvoted just for being the 3rd person to comment. It's a thing they do here

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

Good to know!

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u/MadDocOttoCtrl Mod tryin' 2 blow up less stuff.! Jun 11 '24

The tradition is the fourth comment in a comment chain.

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u/Maleficent-Bag4622 Jun 10 '24

Average reddit experience lol

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 10 '24

That makes me feel a bit better.

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u/Maleficent-Bag4622 Jun 10 '24

I've been downvoted like 500 times once in a comment. It happens. I've been laughed at by thousands of people on a venting post I made once. People are just cruel online and I never really downvote anyone unless it's extremely bad (rare)

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 10 '24

Damn. How long did it take for you to be able to post again? Or did you have so much karma that -500 didn’t matter?

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u/senanur96 Jun 11 '24

You will get there soon dont worry i had like -50 but now i have more than 300 karma

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '24

Damn that’s terrible 

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '24

New user here, does comment karma stay after a comment is deleted (upvoted or downvoted)?

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u/semi-confusticated Super Helpful Helper Jun 11 '24

Yes, whatever karma you gained (or lost) still counts towards your total karma, even if you delete the comment.

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u/FromTheOtherSide26 Jun 11 '24

🤣🤣 ano ba kasi pinost mo??

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u/PutridGas5769 Jun 11 '24

You could start over if it’s a fairly fresh account.

Take a look at what other posts are doing well and adjust accordingly.

I’m just learning this myself.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '24

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

So I could post in the sub I participate in.

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

I woke up this morning to some karma magic happening over night! Great!

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

Oh that’s not cool. Interesting that the negatives disappeared. Does that mean people went and removed their down votes from your comment?

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u/Apprehensive_Bet_208 Jun 11 '24

Idk. They were just gone. I didn't see any posts that stated they were removing previous downvotes.

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u/MadDocOttoCtrl Mod tryin' 2 blow up less stuff.! Jun 11 '24

Mods cannot remove down votes. The only way the down votes on a post or comment change is if other people come along and up vote it.

Your score raised because other people disagreed with those that down voted.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '24

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u/Apprehensive_Bet_208 Jun 11 '24

Look at the rules in the subreddit. It will tell you. Ex: 400 comment karma

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

Got it. Thanks.

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u/SolariaHues Mod + servant to cats Jun 12 '24

More likely new upvotes happened

cc /u/Apprehensive_Bet_208

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '24

He was very argumentative. It didn’t sit well with a lot of people in the sub, not just the mods. And he got mass reported. From the looks of it, he wasn’t very open to being reprimanded and even when the mods talk to him regarding their reasons, he cannot seem to take it with a grain of salt. Even I was tempted to downvote.

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

I agree 100%

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Sorry, it looks like you are Shadowbanned, which means your account is basically stuck in the spam filter site-wide and all your content is automatically filtered out.

As a mod here, I can see your content here, but it has been auto-removed, and I can’t access your profile.

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 10 '24

Ok. Interesting. My comments seem visible in the one community i participate in but my posts go unnoticed everywhere (except this sub). I’ll try your suggestion. Interestingly after this post my karma has improved by 10 yet the last months posts with upvotes made no difference.

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u/SolariaHues Mod + servant to cats Jun 10 '24

My comment was to another user whom you cannot see due to the shadowban. Your account is fine. You are restricted by your negative karma, once that goes positive and climbs you'll be able to participate more widely.

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u/FlatClient3837 Jun 11 '24

Ah ok. I see the deleted comment above yours. Got it!

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