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.

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.

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.

I am extremely disappointed by this.

I thought we were free of such toxicity here.

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

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

Thank you.

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.

Aww how much do I have?

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