"Delete downvoted posts to protect the account" — wrong move

"Delete downvoted posts to protect the account" — wrong move
This week on Reddit marketing, a panic reaction that backfires:

— [Tactic] Deleting a heavily downvoted post does not restore karma and can look more suspicious; Reddit's spam systems weight rapid post-and-delete cycles, flagged in spam-pattern discussions on r/TheoryOfReddit.
— [Case] An affiliate on r/juststart described an account that survived downvotes fine but got actioned after a habit of deleting every flop — the churn read as manipulation.
— [Rule-change] Negative post karma has almost no gating effect anyway; comment karma and per-sub trust do the real work, per AutoMod threshold examples on r/AutoModerator.

Editor's pick: let the dud sit — one downvoted post costs you nothing, but a delete-everything reflex builds the exact footprint filters hunt for.