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?

  • Guadin@k.fe.derate.me
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    1 year ago

    On kbin there is “karma” although not really working correctly. Maybe make a karma and a bad karma. That will balance out the karma farmers, since it doen’t matter that you harvested 20k plus, since.the 10k minus is shown as well. With one counter you would be 10k good karma.

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      1 year ago

      IIRC, boosts increase it and downvotes decrease it. Last time I checked I was minus 5. Thus I think of it as a QI score.

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        1 year ago

        That’s a poor way to measure karma since people downvote significantly more liberally than they boost, and boosting isn’t a thing on lemmy.