• eric@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I mean, it kind of does mean something small, which is credibility. Karma wasn’t ever a flawless way to determine credibility, but it was a decent first pass, like an online ocular patdown.

    • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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      Uh, no. Lol

      It maybe showed popularity. But it was frequently manipulated.

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        Example: replace this entire comment with a portion of a highly upvoted comment below from this same thread, combine that with an official experience that only shows one or two top level comments and those copies can also get lots of upvotes. Reddit was rife with these kinds of bots.