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?

  • kissmekate@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    I accumulated a good bit in a short time and didn’t care. If I was trying to decide if someone was a bot, a horrible person, or just clueless, I’d glance at post history. That seemed to work well. I assume you can do the same here, I just haven’t tried because I haven’t needed to. Yay for that.

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      1 year ago

      I guess if you remove the incentive to have high karma, people won’t spam trying to increase karma