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?

  • @dreadedsemi
    1•2 years ago

    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.