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submitted 1 year ago by croobat@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I could swear to God I never hit the 10 mark over there. In here as long as it isn't a "^this" I get 10-20, and solidly hit the 50 mark if I comment something truly meaningful.

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[-] Playlist@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Something important to realize is, upvotes attributed to a profile was once designed to place profiles on a trust scale. A person with more upvotes in general would simply, and naturally, be more listened and trust than a person with low or even negative upvotes.

The problem is our brain can easily fall in the trap which has been used by marketing for decades now : the reward circuit.

Thus people prone to make a lot of money abused that, and even raised the problem to an other level with bots and competition. They did so because it creates addiction. And what addiction does create ? Spending money. So you really donโ€™t want profile accumulated upvotes on Lemmy.

[-] Stefh@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe the solution is to show that "something" (that on Reddit was known as karma) only to other users and never ever to yourself ๐Ÿ˜„

[-] sociablefish@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

u know a lot of people have sfw and nsfw accounts? They can see their own karma

this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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