Internet points

Internet points, sometimes called brownie points in real life (a play on "brown nosing"), are a virtual score given to users on some social media platforms in exchange for their contributions. They are used by basement dwellers to boost their fragile egos and to feel above others. On Reddit, they are known as "karma points".

	“	Welcome to the show where everything’s made up and the points don’t matter	„
	—Drew Carrey: Whose Line Is It Anyways

How it works

Usually, one upvote by a user provides one Internet point.

On Reddit, there were formerly two separate kinds of Internet point counters: "link karma" "comment karma". "Link karma" was later renamed to "post karma", given that "self posts" (text posts) were added later. Only link posts existed in the beginning of Reddit. On the new Reddit user interface, both of these scores are merged into one score.

On the Stack Overflow network, Internet points unlock features such as commenting and editing others' answers.

On Imgur, every post and comment can be voted up or down to determine its score. The score equals internet points, because this is as close to scoring as any "Imgurite" will ever manage to get. When someone votes you up, it means "the public has spoken and you are just that much more right" about whatever retarded political statement you made. When someone votes you down, they're either a "MAGA" or a "Russian Bot". Funny how that works out. You'd think points on an image hosting platform would relate to the quality of images, but you'd be wrong because Imgur hasn't been about images since the Alt-left swooced in and flooded it with their faggotry, suffocating any user who wasn't even remotely non-retarded and choking out any attempt at a decent post with "important" posts like blocks of text about how All Cops Are Bastards or random screenshots of news articles.

Incidents

In July 2014, one of the most popular Redditors, UniDan, got his account suspended. He thought he wouldn't get caught giving himself Internet points from alternative accounts.

In 2020, the user with the highest Karma score, Gallowboob, left the platform. He claimed he left due to "harrassment" (which is ambiguous anyway), but the actual reason is probably that he realized he is a basement dweller. It can be assumed that Gallowboob spent over 10000 hours infront of the computer screen. Big name on the 'net, nobody in real life. As of December 2023, his most recent comments only get single-digit upvotes. Looks like no one actually cares about him that much.

Mods And PTSD

It used to be, to have PTSD you had to be a soldier who watched his Battle Buddy step on a land mine and leave behind a bloody mess that could only be cleaned up with a sponge and mailed back home, to his family, in a Ziploc bag so they could have something to bury.

Now, In this day with Boomers, Millennials, Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z and Gen Alpha picking on these weak willed mods, viral topics, posters thinking that they have ownership rights of a topic they've started and all the mean - mean posters calling moderators out, Doxing and harassing them because they got banned and lost 10 years worth of hard earned internet points because they posted a pic of a girl they claim that they weren't aware of her actual age because she looked so grown up to them sitting on that Tricycle. Their defense being, "I got the Pic from sexy midgets. Sure she was missing her 2 front teeth. I thought she was a Hill Billy".

Because of all these mean, modern day posters populating boards - moderators are claiming that they're developing a level of psychological trauma that can only be explained as being equal to the PTSD that a soldier, fresh from the battlefield feels because every time they log in, they feel that someone may reach through their computer screen and play Choke A Bitch with them.

Pretty much only useful for getting them a medical Marijuana license after paying $300 for it. Most legitimate psychiatrists and psychologists would laugh these mods sorry asses out of their office because they're doing what we've been saying all along and taking the internets way too seriously. If these sites are so harmful to their delicate personas, shouldn't they just stop going on them or are their internet points and mod position the only positive thing they have that defines them? Is it so imperative that they have to log on every day and strut their points and position around like a 21-year-old Faggot making the Gay Bar circuit in assless chaps?

See Also

• Basement Dweller
• Dislikes
• Internets
• Likes
• Loser
• Reddit

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