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I Hope Rexxitors Tone Down the Low-Hanging Comment Chains on Lemmy. (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

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

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I loved Reddit for what it is, but nothing made me back out of a post faster than seeing the top 3 parent threads as a regurgitation of the same inside jokes, pun-chains, and so on.

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[–] kakes 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The way it is right now, we don't have total "karma", which I imagine helps to at least suppress the purely karma-farming spam. That said, there's no real reason to think it won't be added here eventually.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope it doesn’t, better without karma, it shouldn’t be competitive really

[–] Chais 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Never really got the point of Karma to begin with. All it really does is measure how well you match the tone of any particular echo chamber.

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

If I recall, a minimum karma was used by some mod bots as a gatekeep of sorts on more official subreddits. But even then I don't think it was more than to deter very new accounts.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Deterring very new accounts is still a useful thing to do.

A lot of posts on my country's COVID sub were removed by the bot with an account too new message, and it was only set to about one week. It doesn't really slow down new users but it cuts off a lot of spam bots.

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

Although lately on reddit I've been seeing a lot of repost bots, and it seems their strategy as of late is to make a whole bunch of accounts at once, then sit on them for a few months before they start using them for doing their spamming/reposting. So the minimum account age was easily being circumvented.

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

that's really smart -- but at the same time i'm horribly curious