It's almost if the idea of karma was the birth and death of reddit. As it started out, the way to get karma was to submit interesting articles and insightful comments. Reddit grew and grew, and adviceanimals and funny quickly became its backbone. Especially as of late it feels like everyone is in it for the karma, people are afraid to post their real opinions even on subs that are supposed to be thought provoking due to the fear of downvotes. Adviceanimals wasn't much to begin with, but funny is starting to feel like forwards from Grandpa and just all reposts. Pics feels like people desperately trying to rake up karma via selling anyone around them most of the time. Karmaconspiracy truly isn't far from the truth anymore. That being said I have hope for Hubski... I'm not quite ready to leave reddit 100%, but in the near future I will for many reasons: Most notably there is no downvote so people will be less afraid to voice real opinions. As my second post I just wanted to say I have hope for my future here :)