this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's no karma here! Free yourself from this mind prison!

[–] Difficult_Bit_1339 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There's got to be karma in here somewhere!

[–] Quills 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It actually seems to be calculated internally but only the instance host can see it, i think it is there to help with moderation or some other technical reason

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also through the API. Some third party apps show it.

Your “karma” as it appears on Memmy

[–] Quills 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ooh, so there are clients that show it already

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

Yeah lol.

It’s only a matter of time before it really becomes a thing.

[–] Quills 1 points 2 years ago

Yeaaah old habits die hard i guess haha, personally i never really thought bout karma, even on reddit i hardly remembered of its existence

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Interestingly, the internally calculated value (which can be fetched using the API) differs quite a lot from the actual value that you get when you sum up the scores of all posts and comments. For example, my comment score is ~20x as high as what the API reports.

I made a tampermonkey script that calculates and displays your "karma" next to your username: https://feddit.de/post/1185964

(It only works for your own karma, doesn't show anyone else's karma, and it also only shows it to you. So no karma farming encouraged.)

[–] Quills 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, so it is accessible by the api i see, interesting

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

In your case: https://sh.itjust.works/api/v3/user?username=Quills

person_view -> counts -> post_score and comment_score.

But as I said, these values are inaccurate.

[–] Quills 1 points 2 years ago

I see, interesting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Quills 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, people can do it themselves too cuz of the open nature of the software i suppose

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I made it even worse, here's a tampermonkey script I made, that automatically calculates and displays your karma next to your username: https://feddit.de/post/1185964