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[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, like posting a gif leads you to have -1 social score, hidden, because you posted a gif. There’s so many opinions in the code.

You have point but on the other side, its goal is to avoid karma farming and help mods, admins for creating a serene place for discussion.

There is two distinct score : reputation, attitude.

  • Reputation is people's reaction to your comment and post.
  • attitude is how you vote. If you do mass downvote, your ability to downvote is removed until you reach a balance between upvote/downvote.

When we post a gif, and everyone laugh, it's easy to get a good reputation whereas elsewhere, i might post several terrible comments. That's why posting gif doesn't credit you reputation. You can't use gif to bypass bad comment and get a good reputation.

That's why it works like that.