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?

  • @scarabic
    2•1 year ago

    I hang out on a lot of informational subs and voting absolutely helps more reasonable comments get seen at the top. It’s not perfect. It can go wrong a couple of ways. But I’m surprised you’d say you can’t think of any use for it. Maybe you’re thinking about post karma and I’m thinking about comment karma.

    • Nioxic
      1•1 year ago

      I am not saying upvoting and downvoting doesnt work.

      it does - and its great

      but i dont see the point of giving the user any “score” or “points” or “karma” for it.