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Because it’s not fun
It is fun when I see a big number and it fuels my ego, though!
If you’re craving some gamefication we have posts/comments numbers
The more you contribute, the bigger the number gets!
You know, we kind of do have it and some apps will even let you know. But it’s got a lot of flaws as everyone else has pointed out.
You know what I kind of want is a way to see karma by instance. What you’re going to learn is that certain instances have rather extreme views (including the default lemmy.ml) and seeing how unpopular you are there while being popular elsewhere might actually make that feature more interesting.
Like, sure he’s a -100 on LemmyGrad but he’s a 200 on Sh.itjust.works; take that as you will. Lol
Because it’s stupid and Lemmy is decentralized unlike Reddit so it wouldn’t make sense anyway.
Because karma ruins actual discussion.
It does, it’s just disabled by default. Some third party clients, like Boost for Lemmy, have it enabled (or at least it did, it’s been a while since I’ve used it).
Chiming in with Boost, and I can’t find karma-like counts. Maybe a different app?
Because it’s shit made to drive engagement, not worth anything. Unlike reddit which views you as assets to make it money and incentivises use, lemmy owners pay for the bandwidth, don’t get anything from out shitposts and if anything it would be in their interest to disincentivise use.
There’s no real value to any of it.
Attach free beer to point levels and watch this thing explode.
shoutout https://moist.catsweat.com
Some find such systems controversial but I like it for very obvious trolls who run around with tens of thousands of negative rep. Makes them easy to identify.
So that you can ask stupid questions and not have repercussions hunt you til the days your account is deleted
Because popularity contests are juvenile, and yes, even for politicians.
By choice. The main developers don’t like that kind of gamification, bragging, karma farming and the negative aspects that come with such things.
But it has other negative side effects if we scaled Lemmy up in scale.
For example, it doesn’t matter if you downvote me if I called you a big stinky poo poo face. Because without a larger pool of karma to detract from, it doesn’t matter HOW unpopular any singular post is.
…you big stinky poo poo face!
Uı mın Reddit hæz ė mækſ impækt ðæt enı ƿu̇n poſt oṙ kȯment kæn hæv. Ȯbſtenſiblı æz æn æntı-brigeıdıŋ mejṙ b Uı’m luık 90% cṙ it ƿėz bikȯz v ð “Pride and Accomplishment” poſt frėm EA.
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I mean Reddit has a mac impact that any one post or comment can have. Obstensibly as an anti-brigading measure, but I’m like 90% sure it was because of the “Pride and Accomplishment” post from EA.
Because without a larger pool of karma to detract from, it doesn’t matter HOW unpopular any singular post is.
Voting is there to sort posts and comments, not to rate a user. Having a larger pool of karma serves no purpose.
The purpose is to rate the users. If you regularly contribute good quality content, you’ll have a high score.
If you regularly engage in trolling, and harassment, and other shady activity, you get a negative score.
Individual communities can set up guidelines, that if you have a new account under 6 months, and you have a negative overall karma, you’re banned from that community until a human can look through your post history to see if you should be unbanned.
Nah. Reddit showed that karma systems are useless as they are too easy to manipulate. Buy/hijack a bunch of old accounts and suddenly, your scams or crazy propaganda are given artificial authenticity. Or, just use repost bots to farm karma. Really, it was a nice idea but failed when subject to bad actors.
Really, it was a nice idea but failed when subject to bad actors.
God, if that isn’t just the story of our fuckin’ lives…
The purpose is to rate the users.
Individual communities can set up guidelines, that if you have a new account under 6 months, and you have a negative overall karma,
you’re banned from that community until a human can look through your post history to see if you should be unbanned.you’ll have to repost previously highly upvoted content to pump up your karma numbers, until you have a positive overall karma.FTFY, I’d really prefer to leave that mistake of karma at Reddit instead of polluting Lemmy with it.
Lemmy karma-less method also drastically reduces the value of bot accounts to farm karma (for nefarious or advertising use before being banned).
I think that’s how it should be. We all say stupid things sometimes (or smart but unpopular things). Plus, if someone had a bad few months, it shouldn’t haunt them forever.
Keep Lemmy karma-free!
…you big stinky poo poo face!
Well then damn it all; what more evidence do you need?!
The poo-pooing alone is a court-martial offence!
Personally, if I was unhappy with your posts, I’d just shrug and then block you. Case closed :)
Why should it?
We can see all the negatives every day with reddit.
What positive does a Karma system bring to the platform and discussions?
Because when you see somebody with -1000 karma, it’s a pretty good indicator that you shouldn’t waste your time engaging with them.
There were plenty of users with high karma that weren’t worth engaging with too.
It only helped with lbvious jerks that you could probably tell were terrible just by reading their post.
You can take a look at their post history and that will typically tell a lot more than a number next to their name
Usually you can get the same info just from looking at their last couple comments. Trolls don’t usually very much.
Eh, it could help discern trolls (like when a user has -6900 Karma, you know they have dogshit takes) and could inspire actually insightful commentary (since it’s usually the more ingenious comments that get upvotes). But on the other hand, there are definitely some big cons to having a Karma-like system.
Many years ago on reddit, you could get given gold. It gave you paid benefits. My comments earned me literally years worth of gold, and my karma was similarly increasing.
Then I came out as trans. Suddenly the gold stopped and my karma stagnated
That kind of bias is built in to the karma system. It doesn’t just punish shit takes, it also sidelines visible minorities
Honestly, a person’s actual post history should be more relevant and indicative to whether they’renworth engaging with tham a single number.
Furthermore, aside from deliberate trolls, most comments or posts should be assessed on their own merits, irrespective of the poster’s history.
People are complex, and it’s possible that raving political idiots might have thoughtful opinions on their favourite video game or the aspects that make a perfect butt.
It would motivate more low quality post spam like we see on reddit.
It used to in the past. It was removed in the 0.19.0 release. This is the pull request that took it out (I think).
This thread has some of the reasoning for it, but at a high level the Lemmy devs made a call that the benefits a karma system provide didn’t outweigh the problems a karma system can cause.
I don’t care why, I just hope they never implement one.
