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.
I don’t think so. I kind of like not having it. It’s useless and just encourages karma farming with low reposts
Upvoted because the question is good and well thought of.
No, we don’t.
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No.
No. What good has it ever done in n Reddit? Just encourages karma farmers.
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!
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.
No, god no.
Please fucking no. Karma is responsible for all that is bad on Reddit. Lemmy, so far, seems to be avoiding the worst of that.
For the love of the platform, no.
I suppose this could be implemented as a config options, so instance admins could choose to enable or disable it. Of course someone would have to write the code for it, contributions welcome :)
More interesting question would be, how to deal with incoming messages from other systems, which doesn’t support a karma system? 🤔
Lemmy stores vote count for all posts/comments that it knows about. In case another platform doesnt support votes, the count might not be completely accurate. But anyway the count wont be accurate for remote users, because most likely we dont have all their posts/comments federated to the local instance.
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.
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Yes I think karma would be useful.
What’s the biggest complaint about lemmy right now? Besides performance it’s lack of engagement, lack of content.
Are there externalities from people chasing karma? Yes but there are ways to design around that. I really think this is something the devs should reconsider.
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.
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.
Some apps show it but tbh I think it’s a good thing Lemmy generally doesn’t
