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There's some misinformation floating around regarding Lemmy not having a karma system. While many have discovered otherwise, this is for those who may not have.

While it's not exposed in the Lemmy default user interface, Lemmy does have a fully functional karma system and it is visible in third party clients such as WefWef and Memmy.

Do with that what you will.

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[-] peterpan520@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

~~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.

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 3 points 2 years ago

Interesting. I never would've considered that since I only sort by New. Can neither confirm nor deny because I can't read Rust.

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[-] forksandspoons@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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 ?

[-] Fingerthief@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

No, it’s not a real thing, I’m not sure why the commenter said that.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago
[-] MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 4 points 2 years ago

Karma on Lemmy has zero value, because you can easily manipulate the numbers.

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[-] eee@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] ewe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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!

[-] Badass_panda@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 0 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Badass_panda@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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.

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[-] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

nudes in your inbox for every upvote (thank god that is a thing of the past)

[-] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I am extremely disappointed by this.

I thought we were free of such toxicity here.

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[-] Candelestine@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago
[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks, I hate it. Promotes gamesmanship and super douches like Gallowboob.

[-] SyJ@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] SyJ@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

A bit of humour is fine, but when it drowns out the actual information it's frustrating.

[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[-] glimpseintotheshit@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I think that was about what my best post had, maybe that's what it means.

[-] glimpseintotheshit@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

No it's your total post "karma", it just got reset a couple of days ago for some reason

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] aniki@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] Copernican@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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.

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[-] Schooner@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure this is just the apps adding up all the upvotes/downvotes you receive and not an actual Lemmy feature.

[-] muddybulldog@mylemmy.win 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] ogg42@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Let's not make Lemmy Reddit, or at least can we label this feature Anti-Karma?

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