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From what i understand the karma system was meant to be a way to encourage people to be active early on to drive even more traffic to the site but as it went on it definitely devolved into a popularity contest like you said
I'm guessing the double post is thanks to the timeouts (what I assume is) due to the jump in traffic to Lemmy from the blackouts. It still makes sense to me though!
yep i was having problems with commenting earlier so i thought it hadnt gone through my bad
No worries! I'm getting a lot of timeout errors today; either it's the increase in traffic from the blackouts or the update to Jerboa. Either way, it's no big deal!