Another Reddit refugee here,
I think we’re all familiar with the Karma system on Reddit. Do you think Lemmy should have something similar? Because I can see cases for and against it.
For: a way to tracking quality contributions by a user, quantifying reputation. Useful to keep new accounts from spamming communities.
Against: Often not a useful metric, can be botted or otherwise unearned (see u/spez), maybe we should have something else?
What do you all think?
I am personally indifferent. Never really cared on all my accounts on Reddit.
I’ll admit that I had a bit of pride in my 550k+ karma on my main reddit account, but I’m quite open to sacrificing this for less toxicity.
I thought it did already. what are these voting buttons
I think post karma and comment karma are very different things. Post karma is not as meaningful to me, because all it’s really telling you is how badly someone wants to be a karma hog. But comment karma shows a little about someone’s engagement and longevity. But only a little. You can learn a lot more by interacting with users than by looking at their profiles.
The fuck it does. I’ve seen comments of “This” get like 40k karma. How thoughtful is that?
I say don’t bother - if it can be gamed by bots, it will. Even Slashdot’s mod/meta-mod system could be gamed by the current generation of bots, because a lot of comments / reposts look fine out of context.
If you don’t have karma there’s nothing to farm, and that means fewer karma farming bots and better overall quality of content.
I like it for filtering out low quality posters, but as we learned at /r/, that just led to the bots re-posting top posts for karma so they could then be used for spamming.
I think our society is likely better off without a persistent cumulative score next to our names, though.
