"High karma means your post sells" — debunked

"High karma means your post sells" — debunked
This week on Reddit marketing, a vanity-metric correction:

— [Tactic] Karma gates access (lets you post past AutoMod), but it does not boost ranking or persuade buyers — Reddit doesn't weight a poster's karma in the hot algorithm, per ranking explanations on r/TheoryOfReddit.
— [Case] A marketer on r/juststart showed a 200k-karma account whose product post still tanked because the offer was off for that community.
— [Rule-change] Conversion comes from community fit and a useful first comment, not from your profile's score — credit to repeated teardowns on r/Entrepreneur.

Editor's pick: karma is a key, not a megaphone — it unlocks the door, but the post still has to earn the room once it's inside.