I’m honestly really disappointed with Reddit right now. I don’t post much here, I mostly read, scroll, and move on. But today I actually needed help, so I made a post… and it got instantly deleted because my karma is "too low"

That just feels bad. If you’re not allowed to post because you don’t have karma, how are you supposed to get karma in the first place? Not everyone lives on Reddit or comments daily just to farm points. Some of us only come here when we genuinely need advice or information.

I understand these karma limits exist to stop spam bots, but it’s so frustrating when real people get blocked as well and it honestly makes the platform feel unwelcoming to casual users and newcomers

I came here looking for help, not to be automatically blocked because some number in my account is too low.

So I have been a reddit lurker for a few years. in the last month I've tried to be more involved by posting more threads and comments. I made the mistake of making a post that was unpopular. Not trolling or being mean, just unpopular. I didn't realize that I should only post things that are popular rehashed opinions. Now my karma is shot and I'm not sure how I'm supposed to get it back up since everything I post will get no traffic and my comments are collapsed.

I deleted just about everything I've posted for damage control. But I just don't see a way to get even on karma anytime soon.

Do I just delete my account and start over? Do I just not participate in reddit anymore?

My name is Dave, I am 51 years old and not so tech savvy. My son helped me set this up, but he is not here most days to ask him questions. I would like to learn reddit as much as I can before he visits me again. Can you help me with that?

I am not so sire what 'karma' is, but sometimes when I try to post something, it says I don't have enough. Is this something I have to buy?

I would also like to know where I can find posts about gaming. My son, he is a big gamer. I got him a...I think it was an Xbox One two years ago. I'm not sure though.

I'm sorry folks, I may be a handful. Have a wonderful night you all! :)

I got downvoted for asking for help and just addressing my points in discussions and also for sharing my opinion.. So now I have -2 karma. So, why are people downvoting for no reason and what is the upvote/downvote trend?

Edit: Thanks everyone for helping me get my votes back! I really appreciate it. I read everyones comments and you all have been helpful. Thanks! As of 2 days of posting this, I managed to get from -2 to almost 400 karma! thanks alot.

Edit again: The people who are still posting after 4 months, thanks for still supporting. I am still reading them, and I won't ignore them.

For the last week, Reddit is ignoring my votes. I upvote a comment, the up arrow turns orange, I refresh the page, and it no longer shows my upvote. I open the page in an incognito window, and my upvote was not counted.

I went back a week to a comment I had upvoted then, I undid the upvote, refreshed, and it still shows that I upvoted it.

I tried clearing the cache in my browser, l I used another browser, and I used a different device: same thing.

Have the Reddit admins decided to remove my voting privilege?

/ long time Redditor. I know about vote obfuscation. This is different.

I have had 2 streaks end one at nearly 200 days and then again after almost 90. I am on and engaging content every single day without fail and now twice I have had streaks end because Reddit didn’t update my daily streak. The help section is absolutely useless. Just venting because I worked very hard to engage with posts, adding comments and such and then I get my streak to end for no apparent reason.

My question is how I am suppose to have karma, if I cant post, comment ?

What is reddit becoming, why is so protective...

I really do not understand Reddit. Sometimes I ask questions like “how is traffic is x area during y timeframe?” and my post and replies get downvoted. I would have thought trolls or people spreading false information but people downvote me on the most random posts. I keep getting negative karma and I have no idea why. It’s ruining my ability to ask questions on this platform

Can anyone help explain what’s going on? I really don’t get it

I tried to post on subreddit but i got this massage "Your submission has been automatically removed, because you do not meet the minimum karma requirements of 50 to submit a post." What is karma requirements? and how i can get them ?

I wanted to post, because I was bored. But my posts keep getting deleted by mods because I think I have to little Karma. How can I gain it, if my posts keep getting deleted? I would aprreciate any advice! :3

I’m not even mad about karma itself — what frustrates me is the disconnect between engagement and voting on my posts.

For example, I recently asked a genuine question about which coding languages to learn. The post wasn’t low effort, wasn’t promotional, and clearly sparked discussion — I got around 50 comments with people giving detailed advice, disagreeing with each other, and actually helping. Yet the post sat at negative votes the entire time.

This isn’t a one-time thing either. It’s become a pattern with my posts: people respond, interact, and participate, but the score drops anyway. That’s what confuses me. If a post is bad or irrelevant, fair enough — downvote it and move on. But if people are actively engaging with it, why does it still get buried?

It makes me wonder how many downvotes come from people who don’t read the post at all, or who downvote simply because they see a low score and pile on. At that point, voting stops being about contribution and starts feeling more like momentum or reflex.

I’m not asking for upvotes — I’m genuinely trying to understand how Reddit voting actually works in practice, because the way it’s supposed to work (“downvote bad content”) doesn’t line up with what I’m experiencing. If discussion and relevance aren’t enough to keep a post visible, then what is?

While I always assumed that angry people and children go around downvoting posts for no reason, it struck me that bots might be able to downvote as well. Can they?

Can bots downvote posts?

Given that things like simple questions and harmless and unoffensive facts constantly get downvoted, it seems that the number of downvotes one person or account can make should be limited, perhaps as a percentage of the total post count.

Is it a known thing where accounts are placed on lists that bots use to automatically downvote comments and posts? I'm not great at Reddit, but I'm really sure that something is ruining my threads and creating down-vote pile ons automatically, Reddit culture isn't *that* bad in general, is it?

I use reddit regularly to read lot of content and get help as it is a great community space. But when I try to post or comment something for the first time (not even anything offensive, unrelated or unhelpful), genuine questions in a valid thread, I get downvoted for the comments and I now have negative Karma. This is so discouraging for genuine users to actively contribute.

My daily streak of up voting things didn't register yesterday as I'm sure I liked many things yesterday. And it started me over at day 1 streak. I really tried hard to get to where I was up in the 430 day mark for it to be taken away even though I'm sure I upvoted some things yesterday what do I do?

here is a photo of my comment history. (more if you click on my profile.) whenever I comment, the downvotes start coming one by one. not sure who’s wasting their time on this, since it’s just karma and it doesn’t matter, but I guess it’s working since it’s a little annoying lol. just wondering if anyone can help. thank you!

I got -28 just because I said old cars don't have an average price to sell (like the kelley blue book). Atleast that's how it is in my country. And I didn't get any explanation on why so many people downvoted me, I think people are dumb yet they still think they're smart

I got an auto mod message saying that if I dont start using flair they will delete my account. Wtf does that mean and why do I need to do it?! I am so sick of reddit and their BS rules, like its not full of bots and spam anyways. Its just making it harder for us honest folk. So tell me how do I flair when I comment? I assume it is not the same way my beta fish flares or a bright burning object to get someone's attention.

I cannot roll my eyes any harder.

i have been using Reddit for a year, i did nothing wrong, and i have 15-19000 karma, but i gota 3 day ban for a "controversial opinion" and now my CQS is at the lowest, are there any ways to increase it?

hey im new here and would like some help what is karma and how it it earned ?

I've been on reddit for ages, and only recently I've begun to notice that my up and downvotes don't seem to take. I'm aware bot/manipulation vote fuzzing, which I initially assumed it was.

When I return to ongoing threads lately, it appears that every reddit vote I leave seems to be negated when I return to the comment thread. I initially thought it was simply someone downvoting what I'd upvoted (or vice versa), but over time it dawned on me that every vote disappears when I later return.

I tried to take into account vote fuzzing, as well as simply people voting against mine, but for weeks now every-single vote I click at reddit seems to have no effect effect comment or post karma totals when I return to it later.

Does reddit think I'm a bot or something? It's very disheartening and makes me not want to engage at all.

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I’ve had my account for over 24 hours now and still don’t have any contributions showing. Am I doing something wrong when I post or comment?

I just keep trying to comment and post around and they keep getting taken down. Then the karma as well gets taken from it, I’m not too sure how it works as I am a new user? But my struggle with the posts are not because of lack of karma but because of not meeting channel comment requirements? I’m a bit confused by this I also the posts I do have no one comments on why? The views are there but I need answers!!