I didn’t hate the system but how it encouraged mindless reposting. I kinda liked seeing big number go up, yanno? Kinda miss that but also glad that we don’t have it here.
Yep. I think it’s nice we don’t have it here, so you can easily change instances to get a better instance for your account without worrying about loosing your “karma points”
loosing
*losing :)
Alr
deleted by creator
agree
Well put
Do you mean the concept of up- / downvoting posts and comments in order to determine a suitable order, or do you mean the tally of all your up- / downvotes being displayed as a number on your profile.
As for the up- / downvoting, while it isn’t perfect, and it sometimes encourages people to only upvote things they agree with rather than being accurate, it is a pretty good metric to get relevant posts and comments to the top.
And as for the numerical tally… It’s easily ignored. I didn’t particularly mind it on Reddit, but I also don’t mind its absence on Lemmy.
Seeing the number go up on my individual posts gives my monkey brain enough of a dopamine boostNo the karma points system
You’re going to get a lot of agreement here: Lemmy decided not to implement it for users. We still use votes on posts and comments, and you can sort by them, but no one gets scored by his many they have, and I think that’s a good thing. Lots of folks on Reddit modify their behavior specifically to generate karma, and often not in good ways.
This isn’t universal, and any client can implement it if they really wanted to.
The one good thing about karma was the ability to quickly tell who was likely around just to fuck with people. If you peek at their profile and see -100 karma, you know they are just a troll and can be ignored.
Other than that, yeah the system was pointless beyond “look at me my number is bigger”
It was also annoying how much it drove some people to make one line jokes or recycled copypasta in every single thread, looking for the quick upvotes. It made some threads unreadable.
yeah and some subreddits dont let you post if you have low karma or negetive karma
I just liked gaming the system. And I bet so did a lot of others, which I think was part of the problem.
After getting piled on when trying to have sincere conversations (on things that weren’t even controversial) I just made reddit accounts for trolling and mocking reddit users. Pandering and satirizing. And for yelling at clouds and shitting on others.
Overall, shitty system that encourages shitty behavior.
fr ig?
deleted by creator
Agree Reddit sucks
How do you mean?
Do people actually look at a person’s Karma? I just see up/downvotes on stuff.
The points system
How do you mean? The up-/downvotes? Like here?
Yeah and it will decrease increase your points
I earned 70$ when Reddit experimented paying users for each upvote in r/cc. But it wasn’t worth it and it ruined the sub
I rememeber reddit had nfts I didnt know reddit paid you in crypto
It was called “moons” but they scammed everyone eventually by rug pulling their crypto. Of course they will never face justice
Oh
deleted by creator
