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let's discuss "karma" (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I don't think that the concept of Karma should be implemented in the Fediverse. At least not, like we know it from Reddit.

Reddit's Karma was handled like a currency, and in order to obtain such, the overall-quality of the content declined as a result of Karma-farming.

In my opinion, the fediverse feels so new, fresh and exciting, because there is no such thing as Karma. No barrier that hinders one to post someting, because a certian count of Karma - or Lemmy-Schmeckle, call it as you want - would be needed to post something. Yet.