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?

  • @Buffalox
    23•1 year ago

    Nope, no need for karma whores.

    Edit to explain: The karma system reddit has, is obviously detrimental to the quality of content. Some people see it as a game, and play for karma, rather than actually posting something that is meaningful to them.

    Others put to much significance into it, and get bummed if they are not upvoted, because they think karma equals popular.

    • jelloeater - Ops Mgr
      13•1 year ago

      I like not having karma. It should be about content and context, not regurgitation.

      • @Buffalox
        6•1 year ago

        I prefer how Lemmy looks over reddit. This is more like what reddit was 15 years ago, and I personally believe the decline of quality on reddit, is proportional to the bling to attract people with short attention span.

        This was already clear when Digg was still a thing. Digg was more flashy and better looking, but reddit had the quality content.

        Maybe it’s not so much lack of quality content, as it gets drowned out more with more bling. So you have to go through more noise, to get to the actually good content.