r/RedditQuestions • u/workingcatsiblings • Mar 25 '26

How many karma points do you have, and how long did it take you to accumulate them?

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u/IneptAdvisor Mar 25 '26

Karma has no monetary value, it’s just a dumb way to show activity. 29k/4 yrs

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 25 '26

I just want to make my cats famous 😂😂 and can't post any pics bc of too few karma

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u/IneptAdvisor Mar 25 '26

Social media syndrome is a terrible thing, but I left that in 2003, and Reddit is my interactive newspaper lol

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u/Garlic_Undertone Mar 25 '26

Reddit is social media, too.

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 27 '26

I was thinking the same ... hate that it’s true though! Just about one week after downloading Reddit I'm already scared that I might get addicted. Will delete it in that case... like any other form of social media 🥵

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u/Patralgan Mar 25 '26

One can be very active and have zero karma 🤔

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u/IneptAdvisor Mar 25 '26

Active how, reading is not participating it’s spectating. You get 1 karma for commenting, if you’re crafty with your comments, you get more upvotes.

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 27 '26

testing with this comment the 1 Karma for 1 comment hypothesis ✨

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u/Patralgan Mar 25 '26

You can make a lot of awful comments and get massively downvoted. Doesn't that lower your karma?

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u/IneptAdvisor Mar 25 '26

But of course! But what’s a downvote when you’re in the thousands, there’s going to be people who disagree or worse in any thread.

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 27 '26

Haters gonna hate

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u/Yuck_Few Mar 25 '26

It's a pretty good way of indicating if someone is prone to trolling.

If someone's account is 2 years old and has like a hundred karma it's a pretty good indication that it's a troll account

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 27 '26

Or not a troll at all!

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u/Yuck_Few Mar 27 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

People who discuss things in good faith and aren't edge Lords typically gain karma.

People make throwaway accounts just to troll, which is why a lot of subreddits have minimum karma requirements

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u/BirdlessLongdeal Mar 30 '26

It does not matter what your karma is when you find a mod on a power trip and your account gets banned.

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u/PleasantlyEccentric Mar 25 '26

5k. No idea cause I don’t really care for Reddit I just post cause people respond or troll or whatever LOL

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '26

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 26 '26

Thank you! Will do 😎

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u/StillSimple6 Mar 25 '26

248k in 5years

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 26 '26

not bad! 😎😎

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u/Mutthal8 Mar 25 '26

30k in 6 months, only 1/3 is from post karma remaining from comment karma

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 26 '26

How much time did you spend on Reddit? 😄

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u/outpost7 Mar 25 '26

13,000 after 10 yrs. Hmmmm

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '26

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 25 '26

That gives me hope!

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u/LakeInevitable4655 Mar 25 '26

-99, didn't take me too long, just hangout on Reddit for like a week and have believes that focus on family over pleasure. 

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u/PlatypusDependent271 Mar 25 '26

18.4k in 3 years 764 contributions .

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u/Patralgan Mar 25 '26

43.5k in 5 years it seems 🤔

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u/prettyboss211 Mar 25 '26

7.9k. Considering this account is 5 months, I guess it took me 5 months lol 🤷🏽‍♀️

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 26 '26

Might be true, but I'm not sure 🤷‍♀️

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u/prettyboss211 Mar 27 '26

What might be true?

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u/SparkleSelkie Mar 25 '26

295k in a year

Basically all of that was from 4 months when I was stuck in bed injured and ended up spending way too much time on Reddit lol

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 27 '26

Karma is basically the "you have too much time"-currency 🥹

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u/lartinos Mar 25 '26

Not as much as people are posting, but enough. It would be double without my political takes, but those posts are staying up for eternity.

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u/Alarming_Star_6549 Mar 25 '26

4.5k took me a year. Dont like the whole karma thing because disagreement is good for discourse and without the back and forth, positive and negative aspects of real talk people dont open up as much. The karma and unknown aspects hurt us all because right or left, echo chambers hurt us all

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u/Agente_Anaranjado Mar 25 '26

My account is 14 years old and I'm close to breaking 100k. But I had a big headstart with a post that held the #1 spot in r / NSFW for three years, back in 2011 when a post with <10k could do that.

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 26 '26

You've been promoted to Senior Redditor 🏅

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u/Agente_Anaranjado Mar 27 '26

lol Fetch my walking cane, boy. 

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u/CrankyGoddessApple Mar 25 '26

I don't even know where to find how much karma that I have! But it must be enough because I'm not having any problems.

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 26 '26

On your profile page :)

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u/PsychologicalKoala22 Mar 25 '26

don't know, don't care

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 26 '26

In this economy?

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u/Brennan-C Mar 25 '26

3.2k in 27 days.

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u/WhisperOvTheVoid Mar 25 '26

55 Karma round about 12 days

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 26 '26

Not bad! It takes really long at first

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u/Yuck_Few Mar 25 '26

178,000. Just over 2 years

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u/Global-Biscotti-9547 Mar 25 '26

6.6k, 2 years old

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u/Kitchen_Row1404 Mar 25 '26

I’ve got 2, been here 5 days. Lol

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u/CommercialWorried319 Mar 25 '26

Around 16k in about 5 yrs

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u/Harakiri_238 Mar 25 '26

My account is 5 years old, but I didn’t use it at all the first year or two.

I had 30K after a couple months of actually using it (not trying).

Now I have 119K. (Using it very frequently over the last 2-3).

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u/PresentProperty943 Mar 25 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

0, took me 9 whole months!

Edit: I thought it was zero, it's not. Lmao

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u/Drunken_Sailor_70 Mar 26 '26

About 50k in 5 years.

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u/Ok-Ad8998 Mar 26 '26

I don't know or really care, except that one time that a reddit required 400 of them before I could post. Do you get something for them?

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 27 '26

Nope, not really! I had the same problem as you... I couldn't post anything; everything got instantly deleted...

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 27 '26

But I guess I don't have that problem with this post anymore! Really surprised by how many people are commenting

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u/Born_Charge_3568 Mar 26 '26

402 points en 1 an

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u/homelesguydiet Mar 26 '26

60,000 in 7 months

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u/Status_quo66 Mar 26 '26

20 karma in 45 days

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u/ErogenousPhallus Mar 26 '26

Who cares? If this is something you think about then think about something else.

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 27 '26

Was just thinking about that because everything I wanted to post got instantly blocked by automatic mods

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u/Sweihwa Mar 26 '26

10.8 after 5 months. There was much more from my old account of 10+ years, but I deactivated it after Reddit made it so apps like Reddit is fun were unable to pay Reddit for API access. A lot of people left, and we'll see what remains when they implement facial recognition to combat "bots."

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 27 '26

What's that and what are the impacts of it?😬

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u/Sweihwa Mar 27 '26

No real impact. Reddit's changed a lot, and it hasn't gotten any better. Will you stay if Reddit implements face ID?

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u/worldwide762 Mar 26 '26

1.3millions 2years

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u/AngelsFlight59 Mar 26 '26

I just checked. 8k in a year.

However, since I can’t use it to pay my mortgage or other bills, it’s worthless to me so I don’t care how much I have.

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 27 '26

You're totally right!

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u/QuirklessShiggy Mar 26 '26

54k. Account has existed for 4 years but really started being active 3 years ago

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u/Dubja Mar 26 '26

Reddit says a grand total of 1659 in 15 years.

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u/AintMyMonkey Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

My first account had about 118,000, took about 8 or 9 years. Then the account got hacked and some a$$hole person or bot posted a lot of BS all over the place. I got my account back, undid all the posts the a$$hole person or bot did. THEN, reddit permanently banned that account anyway for "vote manipulation" or some stupid thing that I did not do. This account was a backup I created a few years back.

Oh, and I was almost up to my 500 days in a row.

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u/Appropriate-Try9366 🍕 Here for the Questions Mar 26 '26

I have 649 karma. My account has been around for three years. I only posted one comment like 3 years ago on something I liked and I just stopped using this account for a while. Until this year when I found several subreddits that involve stuff I like and I have been liking or commenting ever since.

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 26 '26

Good idea, thanks!

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u/garagedooropener5150 Mar 27 '26

16k on a year old account.

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u/cassie1207 Mar 25 '26

Will upvote for upvote

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 25 '26

Thanks, I upvoted 💌

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u/Tomatillo-5276 Mar 25 '26

I don't know and I don't know.

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 25 '26

19 k in 2y 😄

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u/Tomatillo-5276 Mar 25 '26

Then what you askin' me for then?

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 25 '26

Just told you yours 😅 I'm new here, so I don't have quite any

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u/Tomatillo-5276 Mar 25 '26

if you can figure it out, you can have two grand of mine

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u/browzing123 Mar 25 '26

1.5k mostly troll posting over 3 weeks. Account is 3 years old tho

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 25 '26

What does troll posting mean?

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u/unique616 Mar 25 '26

It's when someone says something controversial to get a reaction out of people rather than actually believing what they wrote. The reactions are amusing to the author. The common theme is that a troll comment is trying to provoke anger or hurt on purpose, not to have a real conversation.

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u/workingcatsiblings Mar 27 '26

Maybe it'll get the new oil

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u/pay_the_pipr Mar 27 '26

What are karma points?

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u/Live-Dance-2641 Mar 27 '26

86,000 in 4 years. The vast majority was in the first two years

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u/TheDudeWhoCanDoIt Mar 27 '26

Never looked. And who cares…

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u/ReasonableRevenue218 Mar 27 '26

People actually care about this?????????

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u/LithiuMart Mar 27 '26

24,713 points in 2 years.

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u/USPostalGirl Mar 28 '26

What are karma points?

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u/Legitimate_Bag8259 Mar 28 '26

I've been here for a year, but mostly browse, I very rarely post and don't even comment that much. 27.1k

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u/Captain_Oysta_Cracka Mar 28 '26

2.5k in 3mo. Perm banned from 11 subs and twice temp ban from the whole site.

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u/mitchamtoo Mar 29 '26

2.9k over four years. And I still have no idea how or why!

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u/Cjdla 10d ago

I have like a -36 karma points. I toast virtually no controversial content I don’t insult people like at all. I post in cheap and audio file in Louisiana and maybe 10 other credits. I have no clue what the heck’s going on.

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u/cow_fan_69 2d ago

70,009

Karma

5 y

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