Thanks! I had no idea you've been around that long. Only just heard of this place today :)

What is the diffference between the two?

Also what are badges? Are they like gold?

"fresh cool air, filled with tar and carcinogens!"

Ah, I misread. Yeah basically just requires one person to upvote a comment of yours before you can make a post. Pretty reasonable.

Unfortunately, if every subreddit did that there would be no way for a new user to get more than 1 karma.