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I kinda like how it is now.
I don’t really care about karma or reputation points. However, I really enjoy having a community where you can upvote and downvote.
I just wanna see some memes
Reddit karma is a self-perpetuating problem. Karma being used as an indicator of an account's quality and trustworthiness incentivizes karma farming, effectively turning fake internet points into real money. This spurs the development of bots whose sole purpose is to farm karma by reposting old content from humans (and more recently using ChatGPT to generate comments) which then spurs the rise of human "bot hunter" accounts whose sole purpose is to detect and report bots "stealing" content. At some point reddit turns into bots acting like humans vs humans acting like bots.
Just like on Reddit, I don’t care. As long as it’s not tied to my ability to interact with the community then let them have their silly internet points.
One annoying thing on some subreddits was moderators auto-removing your posts unless you had a certain amount of karma.
The throttles are really useful. But I agree on the first post and the removals.
Technically, lemmy does actually track a user's karma.
It's- just not exposed via the user interface... as of right now.
Kinda of like how kbin displays who upvotes and downvotes. Lemmy also tracks this data too, and can easily report on exactly who is upvoting and downvoting.
In the case of this post, for example-
In the case of karma- Its all there too.
Comment Karma
Comment Negative Karma.
And- post karma exists too.
Oh dear. I am disappointed to see that. I can understand the point of scoring posts and comments, but what's the point of keeping a score for the user? Is there a use for it now, or is it being kept just in case there's a use for it later?
Hopefully it will not get exposed in the UI.
It's necessary because the website is transparent, if you were to federate with an instance, you'd need this information in order to moderate your instance, in order to check for bots, and various other things, that's the only reason it exists.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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