Another Reddit refugee here,

I think we’re all familiar with the Karma system on Reddit. Do you think Lemmy should have something similar? Because I can see cases for and against it.

For: a way to tracking quality contributions by a user, quantifying reputation. Useful to keep new accounts from spamming communities.

Against: Often not a useful metric, can be botted or otherwise unearned (see u/spez), maybe we should have something else?

What do you all think?

  • @s38b35M5
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    1 year ago

    I like it for filtering out low quality posters, but as we learned at /r/, that just led to the bots re-posting top posts for karma so they could then be used for spamming.

    I think our society is likely better off without a persistent cumulative score next to our names, though.

    • @MiddleWeigh
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      Agreed. I think we need to start fostering this type of thought process, where people want to engage because they want to engage, not for points or money or anything.

      Ideas = currency