EtterraI never got the purpose of karma. You can’t spend it, it’s just a pointless number. A few subs used it, fire whatever reason, as a numbers threshold for entry, but getting karma was so trivially easy even without bots that it literally accomplished nothing in that regard.
Not that I ever cared about karma, but I can see why some people did. It plays into peoples need to be liked. Karma associates a number with how well your post is doing. Bigger number = more people liked your comment or post. Basically quantifying how well liked your post is and gamifying it.
Except for the fact that it didn’t necessarily reflect the truth. Reddit has countless technical posts where the correct answer is at the bottom with negative votes because the majority of users don’t have a clue
How well liked something is sadly doesn’t necessarily correlate with its truth.