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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Who the fuck cares about worthless internet points? Lemmy, please NEVER implement “karma” or anything like it.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Lemmy "has" karma, it's just part of account metadata and not usually visible

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

yes we can write our personal karma analysis algorithm

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well it also has visible vote counts on the posts themselves, just no outward facing accumulated score of all your posts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Voyager displays post and comment count, not karma though. Figured that was how everyone sees it:

[–] imaqtpie 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah I mean as long as it's not displayed publicly, I don't expect people to fixate on it too much. The individual post and comment vote scores provide plenty of feedback, there's no need for a cumulative counter, aside from moderation reasons.

However, it is displayed on Mbin and PieFed, but their userbases are relatively small so it hasn't mattered much so far. That's one of the major things I think Lemmy does right from a design perspective, hiding that number from people unless they dig through the database.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Depends on your instance/app. My comment "karma" is currently at 2000.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ty

And how do you display karma ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's in your profile (center button on the bottom).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Isn't that just the comment count ? (Total number of comments)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

No possible way, because I don't comment nearly that often.

[–] iAmTheTot 42 points 1 week ago

Uh, I got bad news for you.