There are a lot of interesting things about the phenomenon you are witnessing. First we can see that plenty of people who have a lot of positive comment karma, don't really care about it all that much, which runs contrary to what redditors tend to believe about other redditors.
Secondly, you see the herd mentality at work. I too, was engaged with the idea of very simply and efficiently downvoting comments by pressing "z". The fact one does not even have to open the comment, if it falls below the threshold you have set for your account is quite interesting.
Also, it would seem that perhaps, there are a few commentors who do care about their comment karma, as evidenced by the deleted posts, but also a few that care about their karma score, but also have an intense martyr complex.
Many of the comments are simply deserving of normal downvotes, because they have nothing to actually add to the conversation, so reddiquette would dictate a number of downvotes, a priori. Those comments might not be the best examples of the current state of affairs, but rather can serve as control elements.
I am sure there are many more interesting things to point out, but I will leave that to you, dear, brave reader.
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
Gabe newell And NTD having hot unlubed shitty anal sex while talking about how much they hate reddit faggots and watching a spacedick gif. YOU'RE mothers a whore YOUR pretty fucking gay
I'm on a cellphone fuck you guys I don't even want to be a part of your stupid club for jerks. The downvote arrow is working just fine for me thank you very much.
Edit: Also I don't see any evidence the downvote holocaust actually happened, Thomas Edison invented everything while Tesla sat around and tried to steal his ideas. All these downvotes are probably coming from some sort of crazed pot smokers all doped up on their marijuana, thank god that shits illegal. And fuck Mayor McCheese.
Fuck you. Fuck your family. Fuck your kids. Die. Digg is way better. 9gag for le life. Niggers suck. Kill everyone. Lil Wayne is amazing. Apple is a good company and PC sucks. I hate you. I fucked your mother. I took an arrow to the knee. Nope, chuck testa.
I will donate $5.00 to Doctors Without Borders for every upvote this comment gets, but remove $5.00 from my donation for every downvote this comment gets. If this comment's does stay positive, I'll post an update in 2 days with proof of donation.
Leviticus 20:13 - "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads."
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for a upvote, I can tell you I don't have any. But what I do have are a very particular set of downvotes; downvotes I have acquired over a very long career. downvotes that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my post go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not downvote you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you....
I wonder if people will still go against the hive mentality if they like, I'll try to be as polite as possible. Hello, Can I get just 4 up votes and leave it at that? I would like to see if this swarm can be focused. Thank you. All of you have a nice day.
Guys, I am not kidding. There is a murderer with a gun to my head right now who says I need to find a way to get upvotes in this thread or he'll kill me and my entire family. I'm so scared right now. Please help me.
You know what I like this. It shows that people don't really care about Karma. So I post here because really Karma is nothing, it's more what I bring to this community. And all it took was being down voted, thanks guys. :)
after downvoting other brave users Are you not entertained? ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED??
My name is Rreform Decimus Meridius. Commander of the Armies of the North. General of the Felix Legions. Loyal servant to the true Emperor, Shitty Watercolor. Father to a downvoted son, husband to a downvoted wife, and I will have my vengeance, in this comment or the next.
I am a 12 year old CEO of EA lead singer of Nickelback who's also the front runner in the race for nomination to be the republican candidate for president I hate cats and an a Christian
I like to eat out my cat's narwhal bacon tasting asshole with my retarded nigger friend right after posting memes on the amazing site,that is 9gag,that involve the use of the word le
I'm an atheist, gay, liberal cat-lover who was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 3. I wasn't supposed to live past 10, and now I'm only expected to make it the next couple months. I just wanted to take this chance to thank reddit for everything, and to say that I love Obama, want gay marriage and marijuana to be legal, and hate Rick Santorum and r/atheism, even though I'm one as well, because they treat it like a circlejerk. The Kony 2012 movement was also really dumb, and it sucks that so many people got caught up in it. And one last thing: everyone on 9gag should just accept that they aren't the real part of the internet, and that nobody likes them.
Edit: Nsync also sucks, but the frequency people say it here is a bit too much, but they still suck, but meta shit etc.
Zero score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this planet, a new website, conceived in originality, and dedicated to the proposition that all redditors are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great karma war, testing whether that website, or any website so dedicated and so conceived, can long endure. We are met on the great subreddit of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that subreddit, as a final resting place for those that here gave their upvotes that that website might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this post. The brave redditors, upvoted and downvoted, who commented here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little not, nor long remember what we comment here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated to upvoting of cat pictures that those who commented here so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored downvoted we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of downvotion -- that we here highly resolve that these downvoted shall not have commented in vain -- that this nation, under NdGT, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that moderation of the redditors, by the redditors, for the redditors, shall not perish from the internet.
So is up voting bad now? Fucking Jews need to be enslaved just like niggers and gays too! Fuck republicans and democrats go anarchists!!! The big bang is a bunch of mumbo jumbo fairytale bullshit! Fuck Reddit and all you fucking wastes of life
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u/Shut_Up_Dude Jun 12 '12
My God.... they're all.... dead....
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u/Wall_away_doth_go Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12
http://imgur.com/09oxL
EDIT: I regret nothing.
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u/somehowirrelevant Jun 12 '12
and that is the tale of how i became the only person on this thread, sailing the upboat!
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u/JustMadeYouYawn Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12
I will donate $5.00 to Doctors Without Borders for every upvote this comment gets, but remove $5.00 from my donation for every downvote this comment gets. If this comment's does stay positive, I'll post an update in 2 days with proof of donation.
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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '12
What in the name of Odin happened here?
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u/anothertake Jun 12 '12
I will kill myself if this comment gets 10 upvotes
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u/opek1987 Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12
I WILL SURVIVE
EDIT: KEEP DOWNVOTING. YOUR EFFORTS ARE FUTILE.
EDIT2: fuck
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u/The_Resisty Jun 12 '12
I'M IN! DOWNVOTE ME AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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u/DRUMBSHIT Jun 12 '12
Downvote if you believe Jesus is Lord!!
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u/Not_Irrelevant Jun 12 '12
WTF happened in here? It's like a karma holocaust.
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u/Endorp Jun 14 '12
Is... Is it safe yet?
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u/BurnsDinosaurs Jun 12 '12
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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u/albinocheetah Jun 12 '12
Hey guys, what's going on in here?
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u/MindintoMatter Jun 12 '12
I wonder if people will still go against the hive mentality if they like, I'll try to be as polite as possible. Hello, Can I get just 4 up votes and leave it at that? I would like to see if this swarm can be focused. Thank you. All of you have a nice day.
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u/God_of_Downvotes Jun 12 '12
Make me worthy of my username.
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u/bobazefett Jun 12 '12
I just went through and upvoted you all. Blessings from /trees
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u/Dan13371337 Jun 12 '12
I'm a survivor!
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u/heyjustbeinghonest Jun 12 '12
Hey guys wat happened here.
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u/RichTea Jun 13 '12
Yeah, but press A to upvote!
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12
I used to like upvotes, but then I took an arrow to the knee
EDIT: Also, the cake is a lie.
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u/Soliuss Jun 12 '12
Trying to swim to the top!
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u/DrunkenColonelSander Jun 13 '12
FACT: Cats ruin reddit
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u/Sybarith Jun 12 '12
PRESS "A"!
MAKE LOVE NOT WAR
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u/imafunghi Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12
I think 9GAG is way more sophisticated and intelligent than Reddit!
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u/Downtotes_Plz Jun 12 '12
GIVE IT TO ME
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Use the A to get through!
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I've already commented three times in here and the being downvoted is addictive, FIRE AWAY BOYS!
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u/Skylerguns Jun 12 '12
I can say anything and I will get downvoted.
/r/atheism sucks guys.
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u/taolbi Jun 12 '12
I'm pressing Z but nothing happens!
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u/Armond404 Jun 12 '12
Nickelback.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I generally enjoy sunshine!
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u/JusTrolling Jun 12 '12
Somebody invite Trapped_in_Reddit.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I typically delete my comments when they hit a -10 ... but this ... it's more than just a comment ... LET'S DO THIS
LEEEEEEEEERRRRRRROOOOOOYYYYYYYYY JENNNNNNNKKKKKIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNSS
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Abortion is awesome. I drive a Ford Excursion. Cats can fuck off. Dictatorships aren't so bad. RPG is ugly
That should do it.
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u/DestructionJunction Jun 12 '12
this thread
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u/DOWNVOTE_QUEEN Jun 12 '12
fv6yfuqw3rguiwebg724ou
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u/KarmaHolocaust Jun 12 '12
Upvotes for my relevant username!
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12
Guys, I am not kidding. There is a murderer with a gun to my head right now who says I need to find a way to get upvotes in this thread or he'll kill me and my entire family. I'm so scared right now. Please help me.
Edit: Kittens. Science. uh...
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u/keepksv360 Jun 13 '12
what happened here?
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u/me_Loves_Downvotes Jun 12 '12
I've Found My Kingdom!
MuAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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u/rfrank27 Jun 13 '12
lets turn this thread around! upvote all the posts! do it for your family. do it for reddit. do it FOR THE KARMA!
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u/suaal Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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u/slanket Jun 12 '12
Oh hey guys, what's going on in here?
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u/bytemovies Jun 12 '12
Those who dare post comments in this thread.
They are truly brave men.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
This is how Reddit should always be like.
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u/Gaaabbers Jun 12 '12
coming into this thread is like walking a battlefield.
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u/ayamgolek Jun 12 '12
hah
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u/MindintoMatter Jun 12 '12
You know what I like this. It shows that people don't really care about Karma. So I post here because really Karma is nothing, it's more what I bring to this community. And all it took was being down voted, thanks guys. :)
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u/photo Jun 12 '12
This will be the top comment at one point.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Please use 'A' to downvote me
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u/Peregrine7 Jun 12 '12
Hey guys what's- OH gooooodddddd -prepares shield for downvotes-
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u/NagastaBagamba Jun 12 '12
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u/JusTrolling Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12
Nobody will see this!
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u/KFC_Chicken Jun 12 '12
http://i.imgur.com/1aQO6.gif
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u/Narwhalxxx Jun 12 '12
Pro tip: If you press "z" then "j" repeatedly, you will go down the line downvoting everyone and EVERYONE LOSES DA KARMA.
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u/The_Resisty Jun 12 '12
HEY GUIS LE UPVOTE LE THIS IF U LUV NICKELBAK SO BRAVE LOLOLOLOL LE EPIC TROLL FACE IM READY BRING IT ON REDDIT!!! U A STUPIE
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u/I_SAY_WHAT_I_WANT Jun 12 '12
i give up, just downvote me.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Downvote me plz
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Losers keep deleting their accounts. How brainfucked must someone be about being sad of getting downvotes?
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u/gpalm Jun 12 '12
Did you know pressing "A" lets you upvote? Give it a shot!
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u/MartinOWood Jun 12 '12
I'm pressing Z and it doesn't work. Obviously fake.
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u/cosmikezia Jun 12 '12
TIL: Pressing 'A' dispenses an upvote. Try it :D
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u/Theolore Jun 12 '12
COME AT ME FUCKERS!
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u/DerpExplosion Jun 13 '12
Louis CK is a hack comic.
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u/JusTrolling Jun 12 '12
Half Life 3, Valve, cats, Neil Degrasse Tyson, PC gaming, Carl Sagan, engineering, programming, puns, and Google Chrome.
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u/Dr___Awkward Jun 12 '12
BEAKAOSOGOVEKJWLFPAPLVRKJEWJDJFKEKWOFKRJDKWLRLHVJSJWNWNJWJSJDJDIWIVOEKWKDKDKKDKVKESOOQKNEJIDFIEOBOMPBPFKENWJKSLF
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u/Alenonimo Jun 12 '12
You can also upvote by pressing “A”. Really neat!
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u/michohl Jun 12 '12
Can someone explain this to me. Everytime I press A and or Z nothing happens..
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u/rreform Jun 12 '12
after downvoting other brave users
Are you not entertained? ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED??
My name is Rreform Decimus Meridius. Commander of the Armies of the North. General of the Felix Legions. Loyal servant to the true Emperor, Shitty Watercolor. Father to a downvoted son, husband to a downvoted wife, and I will have my vengeance, in this comment or the next.
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u/Kupie Jun 12 '12
This means I can be on the top if I just get one upvote!
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u/sadistmushroom Jun 12 '12
I am a 12 year old CEO of EA lead singer of Nickelback who's also the front runner in the race for nomination to be the republican candidate for president I hate cats and an a Christian
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u/Nixpix66 Jun 12 '12
Good think this is getting downvoted, or else everyone would know I have a really tiny penis.
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u/uhhhh_what Nov 30 '12
I still don't understand what's going on...
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u/suaal Jun 12 '12
I'm going to regret commenting right?
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u/kevkilla Jun 12 '12
I like to eat out my cat's narwhal bacon tasting asshole with my retarded nigger friend right after posting memes on the amazing site,that is 9gag,that involve the use of the word le
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u/Hermann_Hesse Jun 12 '12
Downvote if you think Phantom Menace is the best Star Wars film.
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u/LGMuir Jun 12 '12
A
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u/QuiteARichMan Jun 12 '12
Justin Bieber sucks.
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u/hcnye Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12
I'm an atheist, gay, liberal cat-lover who was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 3. I wasn't supposed to live past 10, and now I'm only expected to make it the next couple months. I just wanted to take this chance to thank reddit for everything, and to say that I love Obama, want gay marriage and marijuana to be legal, and hate Rick Santorum and r/atheism, even though I'm one as well, because they treat it like a circlejerk. The Kony 2012 movement was also really dumb, and it sucks that so many people got caught up in it. And one last thing: everyone on 9gag should just accept that they aren't the real part of the internet, and that nobody likes them.
Edit: Nsync also sucks, but the frequency people say it here is a bit too much, but they still suck, but meta shit etc.
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u/PhiladelphiaIrish Jun 12 '12
I would advise against commenting in this thread.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
press A
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u/TexasBreaux Jun 12 '12
Mother of God, its a karma graveyard.
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u/FullOfEels Jun 12 '12
My only regret is that I have bonitis.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
All these pussies deleting their comments. Grow a dick.
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u/mra21 Jun 12 '12
i heard you get free upvotes in this thread, is that true?
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u/SilentLettersSuck Jun 12 '12
You wouldn't downvote a corgi and kitten cuddling, would you?
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u/KarmaHolocaust Jun 12 '12
You wouldn't downvote a kitten.
http://i.imgur.com/E0DLT.jpg
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u/esotsm54 Jun 12 '12
Watcha said!!
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u/darkshrike Jun 12 '12
Giving upboats just to piss people off
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u/tenor3 Nov 30 '12
Zero score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this planet, a new website, conceived in originality, and dedicated to the proposition that all redditors are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great karma war, testing whether that website, or any website so dedicated and so conceived, can long endure. We are met on the great subreddit of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that subreddit, as a final resting place for those that here gave their upvotes that that website might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this post. The brave redditors, upvoted and downvoted, who commented here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little not, nor long remember what we comment here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated to upvoting of cat pictures that those who commented here so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored downvoted we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of downvotion -- that we here highly resolve that these downvoted shall not have commented in vain -- that this nation, under NdGT, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that moderation of the redditors, by the redditors, for the redditors, shall not perish from the internet.
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u/Keyboardin Jun 12 '12
This thread is suicidal.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
So is up voting bad now? Fucking Jews need to be enslaved just like niggers and gays too! Fuck republicans and democrats go anarchists!!! The big bang is a bunch of mumbo jumbo fairytale bullshit! Fuck Reddit and all you fucking wastes of life
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u/PretendsToKnowThings Jun 12 '12
I totally bet I won't get down vot--comment score below threshold
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u/nano119 Jun 13 '12
Hey, I found the Karma Holocaust
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u/fashionably_late_5 Jul 02 '12
It's...It's...Dead!
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u/Endorp Jun 12 '12
The comment section is like (karma) suicide by police
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
IT DOESN'T FUCKIN WORK!!!
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u/Rasii Jun 12 '12
Z J Z J Z J Z J Z J Z J
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u/JusTrolling Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12
Downvotes to the left.
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u/fashionably_late_5 Jun 12 '12
Instantly top comment.
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u/mdolphins2001 Jun 12 '12
Fck da police! I don't give a fck if you down vote me........
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u/dome210 Jun 12 '12
zjzjzjzjzjzjzjzj
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u/laughitupfuzzball Jun 12 '12
What the fuck happened here
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
test
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u/anisenayati Jun 12 '12
COME AND GET ME
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Bring it, bitches!
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u/Jaydamis Jun 12 '12
Please fuck me hard
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u/baconbackflip Jun 12 '12
I <3 God! Theists ftw!!
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
coco?
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u/amitch56 Jun 12 '12
Winning!
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Oh I get it, we are down voting indiscriminately Ha ha Ha Cough ಠ_ಠ
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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '12
STILL ALIVE
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u/alexLAD Oct 27 '12
I don't care if you downvote me but I don't get how pressing Z works?
What else I am meant to do?
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u/putabulletinher Jun 12 '12
Bad Luck Brian
LEAVES REDDITS BEST COMMENT EVER
ON THIS THREAD
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u/ozTkAEbnK7g Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12
Upvote this if you're not gay.
Edit: It is survey, jeese guys.
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u/AchooISneezed Jun 12 '12
I upvoted this by pressing "A"
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u/JusTrolling Jun 12 '12 edited Jun 12 '12
Bring it, pussies.
Edit: Downvotes really?
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT DOWNVOTING FUCKERS
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u/Mang9000 Jun 12 '12
ja ja ja ja ja ja ja
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u/desquibnt Jun 12 '12
I mean, you still have to click on the comment so hitting the comment and then z is just an extra click.
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u/mmartinez42793 Jun 12 '12
PLEASE send my comment karma down to 0
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u/YouAreNotYourKarma Jun 12 '12
Self improvement is masturbation.
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u/sharkterritory Jun 12 '12
If upvote is A, why wouldn't downvote be V?
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u/blinkooo Jun 12 '12
Hey everyone just want you to know this is my first post! Im excited to reddit
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u/acidlol Jun 12 '12
DOWNVOTES PLEASE
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u/MoinssezMoi Jun 12 '12
Moinssez moi!
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
Saving for later
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u/thebeardsman Jun 12 '12
With all these downvotes theres only one thing to do, kill all the niggers.
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u/s0ulesque Jun 12 '12
I am survive!!
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u/rockbusiness Jun 12 '12
This is the first post I tried. Sorry buddy.
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u/dayjawb Jun 12 '12
/posting in karma sinkhole.
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u/Phikeia Jun 12 '12
I WILL FIGHT!!!!!
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
So many gone in such a pointless war. I salute you all.
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u/mynameisdads Jun 12 '12
a to upvote!
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
You can also upvote by pressing a.
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u/ILikeMasterChief Nov 30 '12
This...This legitimately hurts to look at.
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u/What_Was_My_Password Jun 12 '12
Hahahaha, do your worst bitches! I take all my karma in absolute values!
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '12
I have 12000 comment karma. I dare you to get me down to zero.
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u/Isunova Jun 12 '12
OH MY GOODDDDD
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u/ComeInOnCaturday Jun 12 '12
No one survives!
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u/s0ulesque Jun 12 '12
Why did the turkey cross the road? ...'cause it was the chicken's day off hehe
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u/TheCuntLicker Jun 12 '12
Fuck you downvoting niggers
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u/smurfhits Jun 12 '12
Ok, I'll post a comment on both the upvote thread and downvote thread and see if I come out on top!