I just realized that lemmy doesn’t have karma like reddit. I’ve never paid much attention to karma. But even so it does seem to play an important role in moderation on reddit.

For instance, many subs put a karma restriction on who can post which helps decrease trolls.

And while it’s true that karma gives an incentive for people to seek karma I think it’s overall regulatory principle might be worth considering as a trade off.

  • @swan@lemmy.world
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    458 months ago

    I don’t think so. I kind of like not having it. It’s useless and just encourages karma farming with low reposts

  • _haha_oh_wow_
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    128 months ago

    Technically it kinda does, but it’s apparently not accessible unless you’re an admin or using kbin.

    That said, karma isn’t something that should be prominently featured or featured at all IMO.

  • Well, the Voyager app shows a comment score and a post score, I like to have just that. The karma system was flawed because the accounts with the most karma where mostly repost bots. Karma restrictions didn’t do anything because of that.

  • @ChatGPT@lemmy.world
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    88 months ago

    I like that you can see both upvotes and downvotes. I always deleted anything on Reddit that went below one karma here I don’t have that urge as I feel at least one person agrees and I feel like I can be my true self instead of always conforming to the sub.

  • @TheHighRoad@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I was on Reddit since just before the Digg migration and I still don’t know what karma even is not give two shits about it.

  • jrs100000
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    38 months ago

    Universal karma wouldnt work for gate keeping or weighting in a federation anyway. Since the internal activity of each server is opaque to the others, theres no practical way to verify that karma reported by a different server is genuine and not internal bot activity or just manually edited by the server owner.

  • @hfkldjbuq@beehaw.org
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    No. This leads to the commercialization/capitalization of accounts and “karma farming” in general. Increases numbers of bots, decreases content quality. It will become yet another Reddit. If Lemmy implements that I will be out of here.

    Hope you devs can see the issues with it @nutomic@lemmy.ml and not become liberals. Stop the gamification!