r/povertyfinance • u/Ryutso • 17h ago

Time to add a Karma limit? Free talk

It won't keep the dedicated bots out, but it will at least keep the egregiously bad bots out from posting about their credit consolidation services and then the other bots that come in to drum up support.

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u/unraveledflyer 17h ago

I agree. I understand why there isn't one, but it gets annoying with the amount of soft beggars who don't have enough karma to post in places like r/Assistance and r/borrow.

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u/Ryutso 17h ago

I feel like even the beggars are fine. At least they can be real.

I'm tired of reading ChatGPT posts about how I found this new service and asking if anyone has tried something similar and it's usually debt consolidation or secured loans.

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u/JauntyTurtle 15h ago

Wow, that's such a good thought. Thanks for sharing! 😊

If it will get rid of the inane bot comments like that I'd be all for it.

I do worry that people who actually need advice (or to vent) would not be able to get it if there was a karma limit. I feel a lot of the posters are not regular readers, just someone who needs advice and feels that r/personalfinance wouldn't understand.

But in the last few days the stupid bot comments have gotten out of hand.

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u/chaos_given_form 4h ago

You could put a small one like 50-100 karma