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?
Definitely against karma. Some retard can say something smart once in a while, would you dismiss what he says based on his karma. Opposite is true, a smart ass can be completely wrong and yet have huge karma.
User karma on comment, not on people.
I like the idea of having up and down votes but not tracking the total by user. Having no reason to farm karma points could prevent a lot of the jackassery that happens over there.
Yes this exactly. having karma and effects attached to it only causes people seriously looking to be malicious to farm karma. It leads to all sorts of stupid and unusual shit on Reddit and we don’t need that here.