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?
I think it’s nice without. Aside from the karma whoring others have mentioned, I think it’ll also make it easier for people to switch instances if one turns to shit, though that may be solved in a future update so you can migrate your account. Still, this is something I really like here. Find out your instance is run by people with ideologies you don’t want to associate with? Just switch to another one.
(Potential migration stuff:) Keeping posts and comments would be nice, though now that I think about it, that could also be used by people to fill accounts on their own instance, migrate, and thus flood other insurances (depending on how it’s implemented, maybe I’m thinking wrong).
Well, I digress. I like it this way where no one feels the need to get as many useless points as possible ^^