~~But you have to consider the difference to Reddit's karma system. If you have a high-karma account on Reddit, your comment or post trends much higher. That's not the case with Lemmy, as far as I know.~~
Apparently, I was mistaken. Sorry.
~~But you have to consider the difference to Reddit's karma system. If you have a high-karma account on Reddit, your comment or post trends much higher. That's not the case with Lemmy, as far as I know.~~
Apparently, I was mistaken. Sorry.
Interesting. I never would've considered that since I only sort by New. Can neither confirm nor deny because I can't read Rust.
Is this something thats actually in the reddit ranking system. I.e reddit will activly push posts/comments from high karma accounts higher? Or just that high karma accounts tend to get more upvotes, etc ?
No, it’s not a real thing, I’m not sure why the commenter said that.
Really?
Here I see a new comment right above the top comment which is great because everyone has their comment up top at first. This might be a jerboa thing tho
Karma on Lemmy has zero value, because you can easily manipulate the numbers.
I used to create a new account on reddit every few years to "reset" my Internet presence.
Didn't give a shit about karma, still don't.
Same here. If any of my friends correctly identify my username as me, my annual account reset puts them back to square one...not that my accounts were anything but completely tame.
Also nice username!
I know I'm in the minority here, but I think the karma system has value and I'd like to see us keep it. I did time as a moderator on a fairly busy subreddit, and requiring accounts to be >30 days old and have >100 or so karma saved us a lot of work. E.g., it made ban evasion a little harder to do, and reduced brigading.
It also helped to keep folks fairly civil and promoted considering perspective when posting, which I think is valuable.
With that said, I'd LOVE to allow communities to disable down votes... it's a missing feature in reddit, and if you are trying to promote discussion of a divisive topic, or to actively suppress an echo chamber, I think down votes are counter productive.
requiring accounts to be >30 days old and have >100 or so karma saved us a lot of work. E.g., it made ban evasion a little harder to do, and reduced brigading.
Counter-point: Requirements such as these were the reason repost/copy-paste bots were getting so rampant on Reddit.
Kinda, but not really... if you are a user who has had your account for more than 5 minutes and you're not a troll, odds are you never run into those rules.
The repost / copy paste bots were mostly to build a believable strawman that could be sold for astroturfing / "viral marketing", etc.
And just to make things weirder. On kbin we have up and downvotes. But it seems only upvotes come in from other platforms. I never see a post or comment with a downvote here.
nudes in your inbox for every upvote (thank god that is a thing of the past)
I am extremely disappointed by this.
I thought we were free of such toxicity here.
Thank you.
Thanks, I hate it. Promotes gamesmanship and super douches like Gallowboob.
Yeah if people start going for Karma we'll be plagued by "this" and stupid puns. Yesterday I saw a reddit post where the guy misspelled WiFi as Wife when explaining his problem, and then the top 10 comments were "omg dude you can't just get a new wife" or "I wouldn't come to Reddit for a problem with my wife"
The actual solutions to the problem were rubbish too
Yup, there's a lot of hurrrr hurrrr hurrr stuff on reddit. Which isn't inherently bad...but they often just keep pushing it ad nauseum. There's no such concept as "OK, enough already" on there.
A bit of humour is fine, but when it drowns out the actual information it's frustrating.
Aww how much do I have?
1.9k
I think that was about what my best post had, maybe that's what it means.
No it's your total post "karma", it just got reset a couple of days ago for some reason
What Lemmy does with that score is ultimately instance-specific. Over time I expect we’ll see more differentiation between instances in terms of how they treat things like that.
I think I am the only one that finds karma useful. Albeit my experience is based on Reddit, but I found it handy to check out who are the serial reposters that have huge submission karma and very low comment karma. My RES filter was getting..... large.
Lemmy? I dunno. I'm still pretty new here.
Honestly is it even worth anything? Even on reddit I didn't really pay attention to how much karma a user had, maybe when I wanted to check if it was a bot or something.
When it comes to gauging advice, or doing something like buying or trading used goods it was helpful as a proxy for trustworthiness. Older accounts with good karma are a lot less sketchy than brand new accounts.
Pretty sure this is just the apps adding up all the upvotes/downvotes you receive and not an actual Lemmy feature.
It's right in the API: https://join-lemmy.org/api/interfaces/PersonAggregates.html
Returns: comment_count, comment_score, id, person_id, post_count, post_score
Let's not make Lemmy Reddit, or at least can we label this feature Anti-Karma?
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