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?

  • @linearchaos
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    181 year ago

    We don’t need people Karma Whoring.

    Karma is a great indicator of the popularity of what you’re posting to help you post more excepted things. There’s no reason for us to bring the reddit pissing contest here.

      • @[email protected]
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        fedilink
        11 year ago

        Oh damn, is this some built in censorship? If so, that’s really strange… Or instance related?

      • @linearchaos
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        11 year ago

        Not sure, I can see my own karma on the message, maybe .world isn’t sharing Karma with .ml