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?

  • @zeppo
    10•1 year ago

    I pay attention to individual comments, as feedback from people. The karma total, though, I never think about it at all. I started just deleting my reddit accounts every 2-4 months anyway. Pretty meaningless to me. We could have it on Lemmy or not. I’d be just as interested in all-time word count.

    • R0cket_M00se
      2•1 year ago

      Shit I was on reddit for ten years or so and I had a game where I’d delete my account whenever I hit 100k karma. I think I had three or four that went that high. My last one was at 13k or so when the protests went live and I deleted mine and came to Lemmy.

      It’s just a metric that shows how an individual understands the community as a whole and what will get upvoted. Quality is irrelevant if you agree with the hive mind and post lots of in-jokes on “rising” threads.