• @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    Unfortunately the redditors have brought their unfunny memes to lemmy. Hopefully they will stop this when the see that karmawhoring is pointless here.

    • @Smallletter
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      131 year ago

      Or were all just enjoying it and you’re the one trying to be a party pooper

    • @julsiecoolsie
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      31 year ago

      It’s about tying self esteem to upvotes, why in the world would it be pointless here?

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        It’s pointless because there is no karma system on lemmy and therefore no karma requirement to post on certain communities. Aqcuiring upvotes on multiple posts does nothing in the long term. My thinking was that a system like this might end up leading people to place quality over quantity when making posts.

        • @julsiecoolsie
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          31 year ago

          It’s super easy to say “Trumps sucks!” on the news subreddit, get thousands of upvotes. Some people would post on gardening with a picture of a black gardener and get 10k upvotes, there’s a whole list of ways to start a new account on top in no times. It’s how bots work

    • HungryKoala
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      11 year ago

      Well karma is just called “points” here, I don’t think that’s enough of a difference

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        As far as I can tell, there isn’t a place where the total number of points that you have as a user is displayed. This takes some value away from simply mindlessly pursuing points as points would be attributed more to the individual post rather than the user.

        • HungryKoala
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          41 year ago

          Many apps display them as “comment score” and “post score”. And the Lemmy API let’s you request that data, so it’s stored.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            I didn’t know that so thanks for telling me. I’m still gonna keep posting like there isn’t a score count though because it means that I am more free to say what I want.