Karma is tricky as a measure because subreddits are non-stationary. In particular, I feel like the “vibes” of all the subreddits I listed were different 6+ months ago, and they are becoming more homogenous (in part due to power users such as Kat Woods). I don’t know of a way to view what the “hot” page of any given subreddit would have looked like at some previous point in time, so it’s hard to find data to understand subreddit culture drift. Anyway, the high karma is also consistent with selection effects, where the users who do not like this content bounce off, and only the users that do stick around those subreddits in the long term.
Well put and I agree.
Karma is tricky as a measure because subreddits are non-stationary. In particular, I feel like the “vibes” of all the subreddits I listed were different 6+ months ago, and they are becoming more homogenous (in part due to power users such as Kat Woods). I don’t know of a way to view what the “hot” page of any given subreddit would have looked like at some previous point in time, so it’s hard to find data to understand subreddit culture drift. Anyway, the high karma is also consistent with selection effects, where the users who do not like this content bounce off, and only the users that do stick around those subreddits in the long term.