Having 0 or negative karma is a barrier to posting. Some subs completely disallow posting if you don't meet a threshold, but even outside of those subs you still run into things like having your comments held up in the spam queue until they are manually reviewed.
So having a bit of karma allows them to post their scam and/or spam links and have a chance of being visible.
Having 0 or negative karma is a barrier to posting. Some subs completely disallow posting if you don't meet a threshold, but even outside of those subs you still run into things like having your comments held up in the spam queue until they are manually reviewed.
So having a bit of karma allows them to post their scam and/or spam links and have a chance of being visible.