Karma isn’t the goal - clicks are. The more people (or bots) interact with the site, the more traffic is generated, and the less it looks as if reddit is dying. Spez is trying to forge engagement with/on reddit.
Even if a post gets half a million downvotes and dozens of reports, does that only mean that it generated more than half a million clicks.
(That’s also the reason most clickbait is such a huge heap of bullshit. An outrageously dumb/wrong statement right in the title and lots of bullshit in the article = people get angry, leave comments, argue, share the article with likeminded people to show them how dumb/wrong it is … and the author gets paid per click in ad revenue. The writers know they’re wrong, but a factually correct article doesn’t generate nearly as much traffic.)
Karma isn’t the goal - clicks are. The more people (or bots) interact with the site, the more traffic is generated, and the less it looks as if reddit is dying. Spez is trying to forge engagement with/on reddit.
Even if a post gets half a million downvotes and dozens of reports, does that only mean that it generated more than half a million clicks.
(That’s also the reason most clickbait is such a huge heap of bullshit. An outrageously dumb/wrong statement right in the title and lots of bullshit in the article = people get angry, leave comments, argue, share the article with likeminded people to show them how dumb/wrong it is … and the author gets paid per click in ad revenue. The writers know they’re wrong, but a factually correct article doesn’t generate nearly as much traffic.)