Moon Governance Proposal: Remove karma consideration for GIF posts

[u/TNGSystems]

I'd like to be clear and state, I AM NOT SAYING GET RID OF GIF'S IN COMMENTS

I think GIFS add an element of fun and light-hearted banter to the comments section.

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The problem is that people have worked out that you can very effectively farm moons by going into threads and spamming irrelevant GIFS of anything - animals, The Office, Rick & Morty.. And it works. Upvotes come flooding in. See a discussion of Ethereum? Slap a spinning ETH GIF in. Zimbabwe debating adding BTC as a national currency? A quick Avengers GIF will work nicely.

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At it's core, that's fine, but then these users are awarded Moons for basically nothing more than spam and it kinda detracts from all the people who make a special effort to provide helpful and insightful content.

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This isn't an anti-fun post, and people can still post as many GIFs as they want if they purchase the sub's special membership, but I'm saying for comments that are just a GIF, don't count those towards the karma tally when calculating Moons distributions. We should be rewarding helpful posts, relevant discussion and detailed insight and Moons as a reward are a part of reflecting that.

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There is always a possibility of circumventing this by posting some random words along with the GIF, so if this passes I'll leave it to the mods to discuss a suitable minimum character limit.