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I agree with what I just read. It should just be an instance setting and let admins choose. Mastodon can’t outcompete Twitter without an algorithm to easily find things you find interesting, and Lemmy probably won’t be able to outcompete Reddit without karma.
This is one of the features that made social media successful. Without the reward-dopamin loop, people have less incentive to generate quality content. Publicly showing karma is another thing. While it’s nice to be able to hide it, it’s one method of judging a user on reddit. In combination with other methods, it’s easier to spot trolls.
What’s wrong with “karma farming”? Disabling it, obviously doesn’t prevent spam/propaganda/bad quality content. Also, reposting is important for people new to the platform. (Who didn’t laugh at a joke on reddit which everybody seems to already know about?)
I think improving moderation methods would be way better to counter low quality content than radically concealing information that’s already there for the one in control of the instance.
— heeplr
i disagree. people naturally share things they find cool, we’re a gregarious species after all. karma just encourages people to churn out low effort content, and cynical reposting (which i know heelpr says is important, but it’s been the reason i’ve left many subreddits)
i do agree, however, that it’s a way to spot trolls; but i don’t think it’s the best way and it’s very easy to rack up spare karma by, wait for it, karma farming. conversely, i think good moderation is a better method than just looking at a user’s total karma
I kinda like lemmy where you can up and down comments but there is no total user karma score. This may lead people to use the voting appropriately imo.
On reddit, i avoided checking my inbox at ALL because anxiety and whether or not I was making an ass of myself. Which I was, but last I checked I had 50k over about a year. I traded one addiction for another apparently. Drugs for reddit.
In the end its kinda arbitrary and meaningless and I’ll still speak my mind, try to be genuine, and somewhat mindfull. So downvote me, it probably won’t change my mind (:
I know that a lot of people on Reddit always seemed to make a big deal about the karma points. I, however, did not care about how many karma points I had, or what anyone else had. I hope that this is something that does not get implemented in Lemmy. Also, I would even prefer if they didn’t have the downvote button. I think this is something that got abused way too much by users on Reddit, and I think that it probably discouraged some users from even commenting or posting. I have no problem with the upvote button, or even just having a “like button (heart icon)”, such as on Twitter.
I like the idea, as a way to encourage contributing to the fediverse.
