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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by _number8_@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

i can't stand megathreads -- no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

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[-] Squiglet@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Karma farming. Imagine all the people posting content for free.

[-] toasteranimation@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Iceman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It was used as a threashold for posting on some communities, but mostly people are addicted to seeing the validation number go up and be higher than the one you disagree with.

[-] YouShutYoMouf@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe they mean the rules around karma, like how some subs won't let you post until you have accumulated some karma within the sub.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was a way of cutting down spam/bots, and it worked.

[-] toasteranimation@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I never saw a count of my karma. Is it hidden from the user? This is now a mystery to me

[-] scutiger@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

On reddit, it's on your profile. You have a post karma and a comment karma. Lemmy doesn't keep track of that, it only counts votes per post and doesn't tally up the total per user.

[-] toasteranimation@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] scutiger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I may be wrong, or it may be the app that's doing the counting. Either way, I guess it amounts to the same thing, you can definitely find the number somewhere. I know I can't check from a browser.

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