I just realized that lemmy doesn’t have karma like reddit. I’ve never paid much attention to karma. But even so it does seem to play an important role in moderation on reddit.
For instance, many subs put a karma restriction on who can post which helps decrease trolls.
And while it’s true that karma gives an incentive for people to seek karma I think it’s overall regulatory principle might be worth considering as a trade off.
Upvoted because the question is good and well thought of.
No, we don’t.
Technically it kinda does, but it’s apparently not accessible unless you’re an admin or using kbin.
That said, karma isn’t something that should be prominently featured or featured at all IMO.
Some apps show it but tbh I think it’s a good thing Lemmy generally doesn’t
I don’t think so. I kind of like not having it. It’s useless and just encourages karma farming with low reposts
No.
I was on Reddit since just before the Digg migration and I still don’t know what karma even is not give two shits about it.
I like that you can see both upvotes and downvotes. I always deleted anything on Reddit that went below one karma here I don’t have that urge as I feel at least one person agrees and I feel like I can be my true self instead of always conforming to the sub.
Universal karma wouldnt work for gate keeping or weighting in a federation anyway. Since the internal activity of each server is opaque to the others, theres no practical way to verify that karma reported by a different server is genuine and not internal bot activity or just manually edited by the server owner.
Karma farming is bad. Forcing people to have karma to post encourages karma farming.
Karma on Reddit is nothing more than a score in what was likely ab effort for “gamification” to increase engagement. That type of thinking is at the root of a lot of issues with social media.
I’d even be ok with the up/down votes going away all together, or at least the reporting of them. I think it stops people from posting or commenting, because they are worried not enough people will be interested in it.
No, god no.
No. What good has it ever done in n Reddit? Just encourages karma farmers.
Well, the Voyager app shows a comment score and a post score, I like to have just that. The karma system was flawed because the accounts with the most karma where mostly repost bots. Karma restrictions didn’t do anything because of that.
Please fucking no. Karma is responsible for all that is bad on Reddit. Lemmy, so far, seems to be avoiding the worst of that.
For the love of the platform, no.
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