Another Reddit refugee here,

I think we’re all familiar with the Karma system on Reddit. Do you think Lemmy should have something similar? Because I can see cases for and against it.

For: a way to tracking quality contributions by a user, quantifying reputation. Useful to keep new accounts from spamming communities.

Against: Often not a useful metric, can be botted or otherwise unearned (see u/spez), maybe we should have something else?

What do you all think?

  • le_saucisson_masque@lemmy.world
    31·
    1 year ago

    Definitely against karma. Some retard can say something smart once in a while, would you dismiss what he says based on his karma. Opposite is true, a smart ass can be completely wrong and yet have huge karma.

    User karma on comment, not on people.

    • DoucheAsaurus@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I like the idea of having up and down votes but not tracking the total by user. Having no reason to farm karma points could prevent a lot of the jackassery that happens over there.