What it feels like trying to contribute to Reddit for a day

Cozmo23 · 10 months

I Cozmo23 promise if elected Supreme Leader of Reddit I will establish a minimum Karma wage for all Redditors.

AndyRooney · 10 months

It would be fun, they said. You would meet interesting people, they said. Come and go as you please, they said.

Trapped_in_Reddit · 10 months

LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE ON YOUR WAY TO A BONUS, TODAY! ;)

Trapped_in_Reddit · 10 months

Now it's 5 little guy.

sllewgh · 10 months

You just have to post in the right place at the right time, in addition to having decent content and perfect grammar. This thread is a great example of the right place and time. A fast rising thread, with currently only 29 comments, so people might actually read this.

Doesn't hurt to have a cat, a vagina, or a novelty account either.

Pic related.

WildMexicanSeabass · 10 months

4 per hour??? I barely get 1 per week!

ergomnemonicism · 10 months

Lewis Hine is the photographer, for those interested.

wilsonjonez · 10 months

4 karma an hour? Who's leg do I have to hump to get that?

deejay_reich · 10 months

Oh yeah?

abbbe91 · 10 months

I remember you! You posted this! http://i.imgur.com/xbxlm.jpg :D UPVOTES!

PamelaOfMosman · 10 months

I'm drunk on this post! It's like you've broken then internet and karma points are flowing.

jeemosupremo · 10 months

I make .0051 Karma per hour

crocboss · 10 months

caught this one early. It is destined for the frontpage but i just couldn't think of anything clever to post. Damn it.

jaggazz · 10 months

Is that in link or comment currency? Everyone knows the going rate is 3:1.

dullshrubs · 10 months

Man, if I made 4 karma an hour...I would probably feel better about myself. I make about 3 karma a year.

ilovegeorgebush · 10 months

I make negative amounts, but I have fun doing it.

spongemonster · 10 months

Another day, another dollar.

SuperiorRobot · 10 months

Contributing always sounded like a lot of work, so I've never tried.

SEGnosis · 10 months

I can't relate

farmthis · 10 months

Please sir, may I have some more?

[deleted] · 10 months

Hey now guys, be careful.. Statistically, poor people like this surviving off of 4 karma a day tend to blow "windfall" money on things like drugs or hookers.. Are we really doing this guy a favor by handing him the keys to the kingdom instead of making him work for it??

Isaynicethings · 10 months

Reddit is killing it today with the amazing posts- thanks guy you made me giggle and made my day better! I wish I could afford to Reddit gold you or something more- but have a Karma and keep being awesome!

duffking · 10 months

/Dramatic Voice

"Reddit user JerrySun spends eighteen hours a day, six days a week working in his mother's basement to accrue karma. JerrySun is just one of thousands of desperate Redditors who work excruciating hours in oppresive conditions for a mere pittance of karma.

For just one karma a post per month, you can help end their torment. Rexfam. Please give generously.

Distantly_Fellated · 10 months

Remember when giving people fake internet points for their comments was a funny joke to make on discussion boards?

summiter · 10 months

Here I go inadvertently validating communism... trying to get karma is what cased Reddit to go downhill. It's the same "look at me! look at me!" attitude that makes /random/ subforums more popular than the target content on other sites. People will invariably create that which is popular for internet currency which has no value other than self-satisfaction and a competition mindset among others with similar misguided views. Scientific articles lead to opinionated interpretations lead to opinions lead to rebuffs and retorts lead to "here's an article I found, but I didn't it through" lead to "I'm butchering the title and the content in my submission because it's sensationalist" lead to ... ultimately cat pictures and ffuuuuu comics.

TL;DR: So it's not the amount of value your post gives YOU, it's the value your post gives the COMMUNITY

TL:DR2: Reddit is officially a soggy biscuit

ohok1 · 10 months

We need to form a Reddit Union

chis · 10 months

I earn about 0.05 karma a day. I'm under a bridge, only showing my face scarcely then scavenging for karma in the lower threads of those wittier than I.

EDIT: Spelling.

YakiVegas · 10 months

I never know which of the things I post will take off and which will get ignored completely. Luckily though, most get no votes so at least I have low expectations.

i4c8e9 · 10 months

I was going to look at my account and see exactly how much I earn per day. I figured it would be some quick easy math coming out to around 6 karma per day... i've been a redditor for about 2 months.

But, the question I now have is how do I see wxactly when i joined, and why do i have a trophy for the four year club? It's entirely possible I made an account 4 years ago and never used it, then forgot and wasn't paying attention when i created this one... If that were the case, would I not also have the 1, 2, and 3 year trophies?

WhiteRastaJ · 10 months

4 karma/hr.

Fucking fat cat.

OCCUPY IMGUR!

xBarracuda · 10 months

I'm a karmaillionaire, the 1% will rule reddit >:)

webster89 · 10 months

Sir, you make at least 950 karma per hour.

[deleted] · 10 months

I for one am happy with Reddit being a laissez-faire, true free market of karma. It may fuck a lot of people over in real life, but on Reddit, there is a reason /r/new sucks and its a good thing that shitty submissions get buried. Reposts can be annoying, but they're like sitcom re-runs, they're still good for a laugh and new people get to see what they were missing before they found Reddit.

theNinjahs · 10 months

Next post is success kid...

generousone · 10 months

now you're a Rockefeller congrats.

Vuchetich · 10 months

REDISTRIBUTION OF KARMA! REDDITORS OF THE WORLD UNITE!!

The_Schwenk · 10 months

Nobody ever pays me in karma :(

Skaha · 10 months

Dear sweet Raptor Jesus! That poor kid! He needs all the karma he can get for the surgery to remove that dinosaur tail!

evilcupcake9534 · 10 months

4 karma?!? Damn...i aint even makin no tree fiddy

Liferuler · 10 months

Actually AOL and Bill Gates are monitoring this thread. For every upvote you give, the poor boy will receive two cents.

wafflestomp · 10 months

I'm sick of Reddit being about Reddit. Why can't we be about What's New On The Internet?

monstercablessuck · 10 months

You're complaining about 4 karma an hour? Son, in my day it would have taken a WEEK to get 4 karma. Kids these days just don't know what it means to actually work for their karma. It's just handed out willy nilly. And do they even appreciate it? No! No they do not.

Leitz-Ordner · 10 months

Your actual wage as of today (including this post):

0.2222 karma/h (calculated based on link karma)
0.2444 karma/h (calculated based on comment karma)
0.4666 karma/h (overall)

comparison: Well-known user andrewsmith1986 has 18.349 K/h (overall)

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