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let's discuss "karma" (lemmy.one)
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I am curious to hear opinions on the concept of user karma in general.

Do people miss it?
Are we better off without it?

From a technicial perspective, I don't see why it couldn't be implemented. I understand Lemmy doesn't track this explicitly. However, using a users post and comment history you could come to a number pretty easily, right? I was considering making a toy app that would take a user and instance and spit out a karma score for post and comments, what would stop others from doing the same?

Will it be inevitably pulled into existence by Lemmy users as we mature the platform?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I hated the karma system. It led to people doing a whole bunch of stupid one-liners like out of a marvel movie and things like cake day posts.

Edit:spelling

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

...is it bad that I actually liked reading one-liners and "happy cake day" comments? ^_^;;;; TBF it's been a while since I watched a Marvel movie, so I don't know if the ones you hated are the ones I liked. I suppose you must be right that a lot of people just said things for karma, but I always assumed they were saying it for the lulz. Stupid one-liners seemed to be the whole point of certain subs, presumably because at least some of the people there enjoyed them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like it led to a lot of toxicity I'd like to avoid here