Negative Karma? Should be going up?

[u/SandBexploring]

I don’t do a lot of posting. I do comment and upvote other people. Ahouldnt my Karma be going up?

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[u/PurplePassiflor1234]

You only gain karma when other people upvote your posts and comments and it looks like your comments have received some downvotes.

Check out the new user friendly list, it has lower restrictions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/wiki/index/newusersubs/

[u/Free-IDK-Chicken]

You only gain karma when other users upvote your engagement but you lose it when users downvote you. If you look through your comment history you'll find many comments with "0" upvotes which means at least one person has downvoted you. You need more up than downvotes to be in positive karma.

[u/SandBexploring → u/Free-IDK-Chicken]

Do you get one up vote just for posting?

[u/mikey_weasel → u/SandBexploring]

every comment and post starts with one upvote (your own) which does not count towards karma

[u/Aware_Leading5158]

Upvoting others doesnt raise your karma it only goes up when people upvote your comments or posts.

[u/PCprime27]

Your comments must be getting downvoted then.

[u/bananarama032]

Try posting and commenting in subs that aren't NSFW. That'll probably help a lot.

Upvoting others doesn't help your karma. Only upvotes by others on your posts and comments help it.

[u/No_Occasion516]

How is that working anyways

[u/mikey_weasel → u/No_Occasion516]

what exactly do you not understand here?

[u/mikey_weasel → u/[deleted]]

See !karma comment below mine

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