They 100% influenced my opinion, there is no credibility behind the type of person that purchases reddit gold to give awards to the opinions they want to lift up above others. Rewards for comments that have to be purchased have no place in a forum.

    • RandomVideos@programming.dev
      5·
      3 days ago

      A users total karma being above a threshold made you able to comment in some communities

      If i remember correctly, awards give you karma, helping you pass that threshold

      They are as meaningless as each other because both serve the same purpose

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
        1·
        17 hours ago

        When reddit permanently banned me, they send me my 850k karma in the form of little pellets of some strange material. Now I have a big trash bag of mystery pellets — the fruit of all my commenting labor.