I’m honestly really disappointed with Reddit right now. I don’t post much here, I mostly read, scroll, and move on. But today I actually needed help, so I made a post… and it got instantly deleted because my karma is "too low"

That just feels bad. If you’re not allowed to post because you don’t have karma, how are you supposed to get karma in the first place? Not everyone lives on Reddit or comments daily just to farm points. Some of us only come here when we genuinely need advice or information.

I understand these karma limits exist to stop spam bots, but it’s so frustrating when real people get blocked as well and it honestly makes the platform feel unwelcoming to casual users and newcomers

I came here looking for help, not to be automatically blocked because some number in my account is too low.

So I have been a reddit lurker for a few years. in the last month I've tried to be more involved by posting more threads and comments. I made the mistake of making a post that was unpopular. Not trolling or being mean, just unpopular. I didn't realize that I should only post things that are popular rehashed opinions. Now my karma is shot and I'm not sure how I'm supposed to get it back up since everything I post will get no traffic and my comments are collapsed.

I deleted just about everything I've posted for damage control. But I just don't see a way to get even on karma anytime soon.

Do I just delete my account and start over? Do I just not participate in reddit anymore?

My name is Dave, I am 51 years old and not so tech savvy. My son helped me set this up, but he is not here most days to ask him questions. I would like to learn reddit as much as I can before he visits me again. Can you help me with that?

I am not so sire what 'karma' is, but sometimes when I try to post something, it says I don't have enough. Is this something I have to buy?

I would also like to know where I can find posts about gaming. My son, he is a big gamer. I got him a...I think it was an Xbox One two years ago. I'm not sure though.

I'm sorry folks, I may be a handful. Have a wonderful night you all! :)

I’m a serial reddit lurker so I have very low karma but I’d love to participate in my local subreddit. I just want to participate :(

Are there any subreddits that don’t require a lot of karma that I can engage in so I can build mine up?

please interact so I can hopefully get some karma! thank you!!

UPDATE: I now have plenty of karma to post!! thank you all. kind people do exist 🫶🏻

I got downvoted for asking for help and just addressing my points in discussions and also for sharing my opinion.. So now I have -2 karma. So, why are people downvoting for no reason and what is the upvote/downvote trend?

Edit: Thanks everyone for helping me get my votes back! I really appreciate it. I read everyones comments and you all have been helpful. Thanks! As of 2 days of posting this, I managed to get from -2 to almost 400 karma! thanks alot.

Edit again: The people who are still posting after 4 months, thanks for still supporting. I am still reading them, and I won't ignore them.

My upvotes/downvotes not registering across reddit for 5 days now. The button highlights, but the number doesn't change after refresh (button is still highlighted).
I know what "vote fuzzing" is - it's not it. I keep participating by voting in many subreddits, some I joined a long time ago - not even once my vote counted after refresh, it's never been like this before.

I know a possible reason for this - there was one post where I voted on almost all comments in a short time span (around 20-30 comments I believe). All comments didn't have a number, just "Vote" thing - the post was new. After that I started noticing that my votes don't count anymore. I thought it could be a timeout, but it's been 5 days and none of my votes count. I joined that particular subreddit a long time ago, and I voted on the posts successfully (I tend to refresh and check because I know reddit is shady about votes). I'm also aware that voting in subreddits I didn't join or didn't participate much never counts - that's fine I guess. But now I can't vote anywhere at all, it just highlights but the number never changes.

I have an old account and positive karma. How is this possible? Am I timeouted forever?
My account is not restricted in any way.

I'm 99% sure I just triggered some "spam voting" thing. The question is - is it forever, or will it go away eventually?

Like the title says, I have at least one person that follows me and my friends and relatives around down-voting every post we make and all our comments. I'm fairly certain I know who it is, but I can't seem to find a way to stop them. We have a subreddit for our community, it's a community for a community that has mixed race heritage, we created a new name for our community we adopted and we just want to do our own thing and have our own unique identity, and outsiders keep trying to force us to be divided, they want the paler people to identify as White and the darker people to identify as Black, even though we are all one people and we are mixed and we want to create our own Creole identity. People from outside our community who have no right to tell us how to identify or what to call our heritage continuously harasses on Reddit and go on other subreddits to slander us and spread hatred, and they get people who come in and downvote all our posts, but they never comment or post or participate and we don't know who they are, in the rare twice a year event one of them shows themselves, all their posts and comments are hidden. How can I get these people to leave us alone and stop lurking on our subreddit because it's not even constructive criticism it's just anonymously hating on us and there isn't conversation or anything productive happening.

For the last week, Reddit is ignoring my votes. I upvote a comment, the up arrow turns orange, I refresh the page, and it no longer shows my upvote. I open the page in an incognito window, and my upvote was not counted.

I went back a week to a comment I had upvoted then, I undid the upvote, refreshed, and it still shows that I upvoted it.

I tried clearing the cache in my browser, l I used another browser, and I used a different device: same thing.

Have the Reddit admins decided to remove my voting privilege?

/ long time Redditor. I know about vote obfuscation. This is different.

There is a person who is logging in to several different accounts to upvote their own ideas and comment as if they're a different person who agrees and downvoting people who disagree from these multiple accounts. There are 4 accounts by them that we know of so far. This is not a large community and this clearly vote manipulation and would also fall under "disrupting communities." I can't figure out how to report them properly on the regular form, as there isn't a direct link under Report User or Content. What is the best way to go about this? Another user identified the patterns with same speech and took screenshots, and this person/bot farm is disrupting several communities by doing this.

I’m a serial reddit lurker so I have very low karma but I’d love to participate in my local subreddit. I just want to participate :( Are there any subreddits that don’t require a lot of karma that I can engage in so I can build mine up? please interact so I can hopefully get some karma! thank you!!

I've tried logging in and out, went on a different browser, cleared my cache and cookies, and posted on r/bugs so far

I read that downvoting reduces your karma score. Earnestly need to know when to downvote. Thanks.

It happened again and again without violating any rules 😭😭😭😭

I really do not understand Reddit. Sometimes I ask questions like “how is traffic is x area during y timeframe?” and my post and replies get downvoted. I would have thought trolls or people spreading false information but people downvote me on the most random posts. I keep getting negative karma and I have no idea why. It’s ruining my ability to ask questions on this platform

Can anyone help explain what’s going on? I really don’t get it

I have over 6000 karma but every time i post on that damn sub automod removes my post bc i 'dont have enough karma.' I've searched the web a few times and they say i only need 200 karma and 30 day old account. Help pls i wanna post there but i still cant):(

I tried to post on subreddit but i got this massage "Your submission has been automatically removed, because you do not meet the minimum karma requirements of 50 to submit a post." What is karma requirements? and how i can get them ?

Basically i upvote/downvote something, i refresh the page the upvote count goes back to how it was before, it dosent matter if i wait multiple weeks the upvote count will not take into account my vote.

Also upvoting/downvoting my own stuff dosent work.

I have had 2 streaks end one at nearly 200 days and then again after almost 90. I am on and engaging content every single day without fail and now twice I have had streaks end because Reddit didn’t update my daily streak. The help section is absolutely useless. Just venting because I worked very hard to engage with posts, adding comments and such and then I get my streak to end for no apparent reason.

https://www.reddit.com/r/suzerain/s/jdzeq3kMjr

Ok so I believe that this post I made has a dislike bot attached to it , the number of likes equals to the number of dislikes makeing it have a total of 0 votes

You infact can see this live if you want, Try liking or even disliking the post and refresh the page, you should see the votes reset to zero

I also promise you that is not a way for me to farm likes in any sort of way, it's a genuine problem that I hope can be addressed

Few additional points I like to add

yes it's a post of something that I made with the help of AI, and I know there is a lot of hate for that, I did not break any rules of that sub reddit either and even spoke to the moderators who said it could be random people just disliking the post....

However, the speed at which it gets disliked or even liked to make the total votes equal zero... is instantaneous

Please feel free to try doing both liking then reloading the page and then also disliking and reloading the page, it always becomes zero

I hope someone would be able to help solve this problem

A few weeks ago my upvotes and downvotes stopped registering.

I'm quite certain this isn't just vote fuzzing because I've been around long enough to know what vote fuzzing is, and it usually doesn't kick in until around the 3-5 vote mark. (The subreddits I frequent tend to be quite niche, so the scoring is usually low.)

I can see plainly that if I upvote a comment that has only 1 point, the arrow lights up and the score becomes 2, but when I refresh it goes back to 1 point even if the arrow remains lit. If I look at it from another browser or another device, even without being logged in, I still see only 1 point.

In the past I've consistently seen that when I upvote on a comment that has only 1 point, it goes up to 2 and stays at 2. Ergo, I'm fairly certain that something has changed and what I'm experiencing isn't just vote fuzzing.

The same behaviour is occuring on whatever I upvote or downvote, regardless of whether I'm upvoting or downvoting, and regardless of whichever subreddit I'm voting on. Whatever I vote on, that vote does not affect the displayed score when it should.

I have had this problem for at least a week or two now and as it's showed no sign of going away I've decided it's time to ask what's going on.

I'm also not the first person to have this problem. E.g. there's a thread here from 9 months ago detailing someone who was having the exact same problem. I have found similar posts from previous years as well.

Is there anything I can do about this or are all my votes permanently valueless?

(Sorry if this is the wrong flair, I didnt know which one to use sorry)

Every time I maxe a Comment or a Post it appeared as if I had upvoted my own thing, and thats fine as I always un-upvoted it

The problem is that usually when I undid the Upvote it always almost immediately went back up to 1 again, but lately when I undo the Upvote it stays at zero for some reason

Has there been some kind of update to Reddit? Or is it just someone following me and downvoting everything I post?

I've been on this platform for almost a year now, how does it work

I have to choose a community to publish my posts to