I just realized that lemmy doesn’t have karma like reddit. I’ve never paid much attention to karma. But even so it does seem to play an important role in moderation on reddit.
For instance, many subs put a karma restriction on who can post which helps decrease trolls.
And while it’s true that karma gives an incentive for people to seek karma I think it’s overall regulatory principle might be worth considering as a trade off.
Do you mean an accumulation of the scores, the total upvotes to posts and/or comments?
I think it’s been discussed among the devs, but they didn’t want people posting low quality content to harvest upvotes. I’m of the opposite opinion, I think a lot of high-quality posters want to look at their total scores and would like an overview of the total scores.
Yes I think karma would be useful.
What’s the biggest complaint about lemmy right now? Besides performance it’s lack of engagement, lack of content.
Are there externalities from people chasing karma? Yes but there are ways to design around that. I really think this is something the devs should reconsider.