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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I see downvotes in a different way. There's two ways I can get my message across, one is writing something popular that gets upvoted to visibility, but the easier way is to write something controversial. Everyone looks at those to see why it was so awful everyone keeps downvoting it.

[–]asterias 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

When you reach negative karma, your posting rights are automatically restricted. Reddit has also other forms of velvet glove censorship, like automatically collapsing comments based on your social credit and so on.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They capped the downvotes years ago, only 5 counts against your record.