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thank god lemmy doesn't have karma (lemmy.world)
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[–] MeowyNin@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For real. A community doesn't need an inherent popularity contest.

[–] Josephine@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Plus no karma farms, imagine posting for the sake of it

[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why were there Karma farms anyway? Is there any benefit on Reddit for a lot of Karma?

[–] Alkalyon@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Different subreddits had different rules. In some subs you needed loads of karma to post.

Karma farming was also used to bump up the account so that it could be sold to malicious buyers for propaganda or spam posting purposes.

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know you can't post in certain subreddits without some amount of Karma but it is usually low like 10 or something. So I don't know why you would really care about an account with thousands of karma.

I don't think Karma plays a role in post viability or anything like that but I could be wrong.

[–] Johanno@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

In reddit mostly porn bots were karma farmers they spammed on certain subs where they got lots of likes and probably later on got into a scam or spam bot that tried to make money.

Funny thing is on r/worldpolitics you could post without any karma and no mods were present but bot attacks got downvoted very hard. Like politics or anything that the people didn't like there.

[–] plisken@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Although it would be good to see someone's karma with you. If I've downvoted someone more than 5 times, I'd like to know so that I can just block them.

[–] gelouse@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Exactly this. I like to know when someone is habitually being a clown so I can remove them from my life.

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Good or bad I think it is kind of cool to have an easy way to know if have interacted with the random person before.

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

RES has tags and labels that you can create and stick to a user

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good points. Now it's small enough that you can often just recognize the username, but that could be a cool functionality to add later on.

[–] RomanRoy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You guys read usernames?

[–] Loccy@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago

No, Roy, we don't.

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Saw your username. Do you know any Metal Gear Solid communities here?

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

But if it did, I'm pretty sure I would have the most 😆

[–] Aurix@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Wouldn't third party apps reintroduce that anyways, if we don't decide to ~~ban~~ charge them?

[–] Shikadi@wirebase.org 1 points 2 years ago

Lemmy does have karma

[–] minode@szmer.info 1 points 2 years ago

I've heard that some apps are already counting your karma. Not sure if the same applies to other users though.

[–] Conman_Signor@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Nope. And I'm okay with that. I just want to put stuff out there, I don't need points