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?
Karma never achieved any of those on Reddit. You want a number? A useful one is “blocked/banned by X number of users/communities”. That’s a much more useful indicator of bad actors. A bot, or suspected bot flag as well. This things should only be visible to mods and admins, but by all mods and admins. This would filter the bad actors from the site more effectively.
That won’t work at all because bot and spam accounts can constantly be created
That also won’t work for new bot and spam accounts.
This is why many communities in different platforms have the option to set minimum account age or karma in reddit’s case. I guess they could introduce an invisible point system? I’m not sure and I can’t think of a solution myself.