• sauna7843@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    Here is my take on karma. Karma gives users an incentive to post content based more around grabbing attention than quality.

    I think it is for the best that karma doesn’t exist here as it allows users to post what they feel without an alterior motive such as gaining internet points.

  • BornVolcano@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Image Transcription: Comic

    [There’s no karma?, By Victor Gnarly]

    Panel 1

    [A hooded figure in black robes, and no face visible save for large, pure red eyes is speaking a room made of stone. The hooded figure speaks in white text bubbles to another character outside of the frame, who responds with black text bubbles]

    Hooded figure: So… There’s no karma?

    Black text bubble: Ye-

    Hooded figure: No greedy CEO?

    Black text bubble: Yep.

    Panel 2

    [The out of frame character speaking in black text bubbles is now shown to be a second hooded figure with round red eyes, standing next to hooded figure 1 in the stone room. Hooded figure 1 has a hand outstretched as they speak, while hooded figure 2 is giving them a thumbs up in response. There is a small fire burning on an altar in the background.]

    Hooded figure 1: All ad free?

    Hooded figure 2: Oh yeah.

    Panel 3

    [Hooded figure 1 is shown in close up again, pointing a finger to their left, with their eyes wide in a look of surprise]

    Hooded figure 1: But why is the logo a-

    Panel 4

    [Both hooded figure 1 and hooded figure 2 are shown standing on opposite sides of a large drawing of the fediverse icon on the floor, a rainbow pentagram. There is a pure white, slightly transparent glowing figure with wide eyes standing in the centre of the pentagram, their arms outstretched. There is a small white ball on top of an antenna on top of the glowing figure’s head, with a beam of white light shining from their head to the ceiling. Squiggles of white energy and red streaks of fire fill the room, emanating from the glowing figure. Hooded figure 1 has their arm slightly raised, as if to shield themselves from the energy in the room]

    Hooded figure 1: Pentagram?

    Hooded figure 2: Reasons.

    ^I’m a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

  • W6KME@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    What a thought…we’ll have to form opinions of people based upon what they write, not on points that could always be faked or whored. Popularity is an incredibly stupid measure of quality. I’d like to see the up/down arrow on threads replaced by a simple view counter, too.

    • abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s not about forming opinions though - it’s about deciding what order to sort posts. Sorting by date / view count / upvote count is pretty crap. We only get away with it now because there aren’t many people posting. That’s changing.

      Pretty much all social networks these days have some kind of “karma” like score, though it often isn’t visible to anyone. Obviously in the fediverse it would be visible (though maybe not activley promoted?).

      The best karma implementation that I know of is the one on Stack Exchange, though I’d like it more if it wasn’t so easy to have a high score just by having been on the network for a long time (my score over there is ridiculously high for someone who barely participates these days).

  • cashews_win@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    It’s a rainbow pentagram which means only the gayest of demons will be brought forth. Only bottoms need worry about their horned dicks.

  • QuazarOmega@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    And why is it called the Fediverse huh? How could you fall for such a clear honeypot smh my head

    It’s ALL connected!

  • Slyme (Inactive, see bio)@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    “Not gonna tell you what to do, but here is the post on Reddit.”

    Can’t upvote it there, I already added a redirector rule that redirects all requests that go to reddit.com to about:blank.

  • Ech@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Huh, I hadn’t noticed that before. Definitely gonna be the focus of some unstable people I’m sure.

  • Omgarm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    What good is a website if you can’t summon Eldritch entities?

    Edit: that website doesn’t load for me

  • nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    It would be nice if we could create post/communities that only sort comments on recency. I never did like the whole reddit upvote downvote button for comments.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      Upvote and downvote is a great system provided it shows both and doesnt reduce it to positive or negative only.

      The system is meant to show good content from bad content, by showing the total amount of up and down votes. Reddit got rid of that system years ago and just showed the sum of votes which is where the “hive mind” mentality came from. Used to be you’d see a post with dozens of upvotes and downvotes and it would tell you that the content itself was usually of high quality, it was just a controversial take. If a post had 450 downvotes and 400 upvotes you’d know they were speaking for about half of the site, whereas if it only shows “-50” you’d think they are a huge minority.

      As long as karma doesn’t exist and the total amount of all votes are displayed, I think it’s a far better system than just showing every comment based on it being recently posted. If we did that you’d have spam everywhere and you would have to dig through a dozen low effort comments to get the best engagement.