Every time I get a snarky, rude and shitty response from a user. 9 times out of 10 it is from users with hundreds to thousands of pointless karma points. My best guess is that it has really all gone to their heads and because of their high count, they think they’re speaking the golden words of the gospel with every comment that they make.
That nothing can touch them and that they’re validated so they can’t be argued against.
Your account is an hour old and Lemmy doesn’t have Karma…
So did you make a post complaining about Reddit and just forget youre not on Reddit?
If you go to their instance you’ll see that is does list it in users’ profiles (Reputation points).
Really? I can’t see yours.
I am on Lemmy, OP is not:
https://kbin.melroy.org/u/Pyrin
I think it’s more because those people don’t have a life outside their computer, and some of them have poor social skills and inflated ego from knowing a bit about computers.
If you spend all your time on the internet, and specially social media, you get a warped view of reality.
But it’s hard to get proper friends for a lot of people. I understand why the internet becomes a substitute.
I check a lot of those boxes but have never had many points on most websites. The difference I think is that I don’t often make posts/threads (comments alone usually don’t get as many views/points, posts may get thousands of points).
Those with the most points often make posts multiple times an hour (often a dozen posts in a day) particularly if they become “known” for some theme/gimmick (which may add to ego). Also at that point they likely have parasocial users backing up their ego and buffoonery.
I don’t know if any of those “no life” people are behind this or not. I suspect people posting like this, especially when it is blog-like (their job, some other interaction) are likely normal outgoing people who just have their phone with them to post whenever they have a spare moment. It may even be a similar archetype to “influencer” (one unlikely to show their face) especially if they are saving many things ahead of time to post later. That, and the inevitable monetization even if it’s just gifts/favors from strangers.
