-7
Does anyone ever miss karma?
(lemmy.ml)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
-7 points (43.1% liked)
Asklemmy
48798 readers
685 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
No, and I wish votes didn't even exist here.
Votes are the only reason making a social platform social.
Juat look at Youtube comments, Instagram, Facebook, etc. None have downvotes.
Its somehow more social to see opinions on votes besides text.
I think voting is completely unnecessary, and is a sort of "participation placebo" for the lazy but opinionated.
Nobody needs to vote, but if most people do vote, makes it easier for everyone to find good content.
The best content on this platform often has less than 10 votes. The most? The sociopolitical headline mill communities.
If certain people feel that's the good content, that's their prerogative. I don't.
Now you’re conflating quality with popularity.
A popularity metric is still handy since there is no objective quality metric.
That's a fair point.
Its more about reflecting on your own comment or post.
Here is a good post about this topic https://lemmy.ml/post/29375485
I find a good amount of opinions in that post highly idealized and conceptual, but not really the end experience. Nevertheless, thank you for sharing the link.
I'd be more open to a voting system that rewards actual contribution. For example, a user is allotted (rewarded?) a certain number of votes for every post and every comment they make. The content creators and discussion participants drive the platform.
I'm sure a whole new set of problems would arise, but I feel it'd be a fresh experience, with less armchair warriors.