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?
No, and I believe to encourage free expression of opinion, negative score on comments/posts should be hidden. minimum displayed score should be 1. internally it should have impact. Too negative comments/posts should be auto reported to mods to check if they break rules.
Why would many people downvote a rule-breaking post/comment, but nobody would report it?
Good question. But I’m sure it happens sometimes. (Someone else will do it)
Also, often it is argued that up/downvotes are user based moderation but if you hide that score then it won’t work as well, this is where mod can step in to see if the comment/post falls in the grey zone. Or require new rule. Or perhaps shouldn’t appear first in results.
This largely would depend on the community.