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. I’d rather no up voting/downvoting on comments at all. It discourages discussion.
Top comments are mostly extremely shortsighted bs.
Still, there’s sometimes that 3rd or 4th comment from the top that isn’t just a dumb joke and actually has the real answer. Without voting, that would just be totally lost among the thousands of other comments. I’m pro karma. I mostly didn’t care for the big subs but in smaller ones where real questions and answers are happening, voting is really helpful for figuring out who is talking out of their ass. It’s not perfect, but it helps.