Same here … never accumulated millions of karma but I had multiple accounts and two of them reached over 200,000 karma. I posted lots and in the past few years learned to post meaningful content that was appreciated. I learned that just being nice and polite to people was more meaningful to others than in just sharing another meme. I noticed that people do like their memes but most of them are endlessly scrolling through everything and contributing little new content … most just repeat and repost … even the responses are reposts and repeats…

I remember reading once on a thread that on average every community was about one in ten contributor and nine out of ten are just lurkers who either just watch content and a few reposters … the majority don’t contribute, it’s just a small dedicated portion that create actual new content.

I like to think that if Reddit loses enough of those core contributors … it would really affect the site overall … but it also might not matter because there is enough content there now for the site and community of reposters to live on for years to come.

We won’t know the effect will be until a few months from now … it might be drastic, or there might not be much of a difference … who knows.