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by StreamBright 3764 days ago
It is just the proof that Reddit voting system does not function properly, not being able to down vote with a karma below a certain value is essential.
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If this was introduced, lots of random sub reddits would spring up where bots would post rubbish and upvote each other until they got the required karma.
It could be a per subreddit count. Subreddit mods could trust users coming from other subreddits, and so on.
At worst, we'd be no worse off than now. At best this behaviour would be detectable by admins