• @ccunning
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    3025 days ago

    I didn’t think karma existed on Lemmy? Or maybe it was removed in ann update?

      • kersploosh
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        25 days ago

        Users’ aggregate post and comment score has been entirely removed from the Lemmy API (as of version 0.19.0 if I remember correctly). It is not easily accessible to anyone, including admins. You could write a script to sum a user’s aggregate score.

        • @[email protected]
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          1125 days ago

          Interesting. Your instance is from another platform, right? Is it Piefed or mbin?

          Is this just basically karma or what does it mean?

          • originalucifer
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            1125 days ago

            yep, im coming from an mbin instance. its basically karma… upvotes - downvotes.

            it really helps identifying spammers/trolls quickly.

            • @[email protected]
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              825 days ago

              Thanks. I love that we’ve got several active alternatives we can communicate with on the threadiverse now. I like Lemmy but I hope they continue to proliferate.

            • @ccunning
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              225 days ago

              Does it persist through comment/post removal/deletion?

              • originalucifer
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                125 days ago

                i believe mbin has cascading deletes, which should alter the aggregation if things get deleted.

        • @Valmond
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          25 days ago

          Isn’t it worthless though? I mean I could award myself karma on my servers communities or just hack it up.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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        Well, in that your upvote total and ratio can be calculated, at least. Does it actually do anything, or can it do anything, like it did on reddit? Subs having minimum karma thresholds, that sort of thing? If not, it’s truly meaningless and can be safely ignored by everyone.

        That’s what I do.