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Terr_ on April 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Gossip App Brought My High School to a Halt

Easy enough, conceptually at least: Allow people to see other users' activity/karma which is only within the current subreddit.

jeffbr13 on April 28, 2014 [–]

Similarly, your rep on one StackExchange site doesn't follow you around to all the other sites, because it's not really relevant.

Terr_ on April 29, 2014 | [–]

> it's not really relevant

Well, it could be highly relevant, but the system isn't (yet?) designed to recognize when two sibling sites have significant overlap, which does occur.

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