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let's discuss "karma" (lemmy.one)
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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Karma is only sometimes a measure of the overall quality of a poster.

Often (more often?) it's just a measure of how aggressively they've farmed it, which ironically sort of makes it an inverted measure of quality.

Personally, on Reddit, the only times I ever really noticed it was when somebody had wildly gigantic numbers, which often just led to me checking their profile, discovering that yes indeed - they did get those numbers by (re)posting an endless stream of pabulum - then blocking them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The third thing it measures is how terminally online someone is. It builds up without any farming required.