how do people on this site not realize that the points next to your posts affect how your posts are sorted and are literally the exact same system as reddit? am i just so blind that i can actually see the numbers next to my posts or is everyone here just trying to be so anti-reddit they'll make up bullshit that isn't reality?
They are talking about karma as a thing you could collect, point totals for all posts added together displayed on your profile. Not the voting mechanism itself.
Lemmy also has that bro. Some clients display it and some don’t, but when I click on your name I see that you have 510 total comment score and 0 total post score.
https://i.imgur.com/NxSyRDg_d.webp?maxwidth=760&fidelity=grand
And that system was irrelevant on Reddit just like it is here. You still have a total karma number in the API, every app I have used shows it, even if it is broken right now. Only the default theme on the web page hides the number. The only people who saw value in karma are the people who farmed it and the people who bitch about the people who farmed it. Either way, making posts that get a lot of upvotes specifically to get a lot of upvotes happens here just like I does on Reddit so idk what this OP is trying to say because they're farming karma lol.
Arguably one difference is that on lemmy it's just a straight up sum AFAIK, while on reddit there are some algorithms attached to tweak things so you can't lose vast amounts of karma from a single shit comment and such.
you can only lose 15 points for a comment and 0 for a post. the only thing they do is they jitter the total points to fight botting. its designed to make karma a representation of content given, not necessarily that you have a high hit rate.
The initial point of the karma system was to push to the top of discussions relevant information while the shitposts were put at the bottom. It works sometimes, sometimes it doesn't.
I think, honestly, politics is the biggest issue here when it comes to the karma system and it doesn't work well at all within it, but for many other things it's actually a decent system and a good way to find relevant information in a thread without reading through 500 pages on a forum or something
Just my 2 pennies
Literally seen 0 people asking for karma system
Also karma on Reddit is basically irrelevant. The only place it matters is in automoderation removing posts and comments for users under a certain level of karma.
Which is honestly freaking dumb. Sure you can do it with a big community but it will speed up the hivemind and alienate new users and frankly did nothing to curb bots because bots just farmed karma elsewhere on a sub where it was open by spamming posts and comments. And then went right back on the "threshold" subs.
You need Karma, in so many subs. Not only comments karma, also posts karma and all that stupid shit
I once wanted to post a meme on r/memes. My post got removed because I needed a lot more karma (my estimation was that I needed 1k each for both comments and posts but it wouldn’t actually tell me how much I needed). I REALLY hope that doesn’t appear here. It just blocks people from making and sharing content with others.
I mean, upvotes are counted and tracked so how is that different than karma?
Shhh let them just enjoy it for now
You don't have a score.
Doesnt lemmy have a karma system already? I can see up votes on my posts, and a sum total on my account page.
Or do you mean something else by “karma”?
some third party clients sum up the upvote count of your posts to make a countturns out the lemmy api does send it to youbut lemmy itself will never get a proper karma system in the ui as has been said by the main people working behind it multiple times
The apps aren't "summing it up", while the lemmy webUI does not display it, it's perfectly accessible via API.
Wow you’re right. I’ve gotten so used to Memmy and Wefwef that I didn’t realize the main site didn’t have it lol
but you just said lemmy has the exact same karma system reddit has.
hmm, checked the API documentation of lemmy itself, this seems able to get a person comment/post score data https://join-lemmy.org/api/interfaces/PersonAggregates.html
Reddit has a karma sum which is used to deny access from posting altogether. Here if you say something unpopular, you don't get the dopamine hit from upvotes, but you're also not silenced, unless the mod explicitly bans you.
While I agree unpopular opinions often get shouted down, i think people often forget that sometimes what they consider an “unpopular opinion” is unpopular because it’s abhorrent or just wrong lol. Not every comment/idea is valid and deserves to be entertained.
Being anti-vax is unpopular in a lot of circles and I am perfectly happy with seeing those comments downvoted/ removed and the users banned.
I’d argue you still can get that dopamine hit.
Even if the numbers don’t carry elsewhere in a meaningful way, seeing the high positive number next to your post still means that other people agreed with/liked what you said on that particular post/comment. And that alone can give a mild dopamine hit.
Less useful for bots trying to farm rep for nefarious reasons, more useful for real people who can feel the joy of a moment.
How are you not silenced exactly like you would be on Reddit? People downvotes posts and comments they don't agree with exactly like reddit, but here if the admins disagree they defederate entire instances over it. Hot page is completely useless compared to reddit, so only the most upvotes posts from the most popular subs are visible, and comments have the exact same issues reddit comments had. Nothing about this system is mechanically different from reddits system, baring how votes get totaled because of federation, (also the hot sort is uses).
Where does it show the sum total? I don't see that in my profile or yours. Maybe it's instance-dependent?
Either way, upvotes serve the same purpose here so I think the incentives are the same.
Lemmy doesn’t but Kbin does.
Color me confused ...
I'm on connect for lemmy and also have a total count on my profile page.
Actually, isn't it up to the client? The dev can decide what to feature in the profile page. The fact is, every user has points for posts and comments. Maybe they are just adding the numbers up? Afaik Reddit had some other maths behind the karma count
I'll dissent. I like the karma system. It gives me a quick read out of who's a troll and who isn't.
I don't care about post karma so much, but the comment karma was an interesting stat.
Edit: An important caveat. We MUST keep downvotes visible. MUST. Having just a positive score breeds absolute insanity.
Negative karma doesn't necessarily indicate a troll, any unpopular opinion can get down-voted to hell while similar but differently expressed ideas get up-voted in the same thread. I'm not against karma system though, just think it's quite useless in most cases.
All comment karma tells you is who was first to a thread basically in my experience, and I had over 500k of it lol it's nothing though I could go troll for days before making a dent in the 10k you get from an obvious joke on the new tab and then the thread takes off
Best way to tell if someone is a troll is just to look at what they say imo 🤷🏻♂️
I had my third party app and browser extensions set to automatically hide comments by people with very low karma and very low comment scores. I'd only ever see hateful comments if I clicked to unhide them and I liked that
Idk I felt like above a certain point karma was just an indication that that person knew how to game the system and play nice with reddit.
I like how it is on lemmy. I feel like downvotes/upvotes prompt conversations. You're at 47/6 and it doesn't really matter to me, it just shows that people might not totally agree and then I'm hopeful that they have left a comment.
I think it's also possible that the voting system on reddit was effective at marginalizing people.
You can only lose about 100karma in one comment thread so if a troll can get one high upvote comment it can counteract literally 100's of negative comments.
Karma was pointless. Nobody cared at all. Upvotes and downvotes are fine and useful to be able to see both. Karma is a worthless system and encourages spamming low-effort garbage memes and endless reposting of the same shit.
It gave me a pointless feeling of pride and accomplishment. Which was exactly what I did not need.
Getting downloaded here I can see that their sentiment against my point, but it doesn't really piss me off. On Reddit I get angry and try to defend myself It was a really huge waste of time.
The karma also added points from all the awards on reddit. So a troll comment with lots of awards received more karma points than the actual post with real good content.
Near the end I had a bunch of coins, so I would find the most juvenile joke I could and give them gold or something, I enjoyed the thought that it could be their first gilded comment and it was a comment saying poop or something stupid like that.
NGL for me at least it was a good system to sort out the low effort users by putting a minimum karma points
Nobody cared at all
The mods cared. There were many bots used by moderators that relied on karma, the main one being automoderator.
I marked your name.
This ain't a shit post.
Once there is a karma system in place I'm gonna vote you down to oblivion.
Some mighty big words for someone with only 97 karma
How so? I use connect and wasn't aware of a karma system
Not one time on reddit did i consider or care about my karma
I saved up 14 years worth of karma on Reddit and traded it in for…nothing, because that's what it's worth in the real world.
I'm against any sort of gamification on social media. Not even achievements/badges or awards. That is the start of dark patterns and addictive design.
Exactly. It feels rewarding to receive karma but that dopamine rush is actually what Instagram, TikTok and all the other corporate-driven platforms out there are exploiting. We don't need that here.
I like being able to say what I want without being banned by a power-tripping mod, or downvoted into irrelevance by a circle jerk. We need to be able to point out that the Emperor isn't wearing clothes.
Abolitely 100%. This is not R and people should stop talking about R and stop fucking trying to make it more like R was.
R still exists, anyone who wants that can go back to that shithole.
This is the weird web. A return to a time before it was taken over by 4 major corporations.
Fuck R, fly your freak flags, people!
Well except for those who are here because of a bullshit Reddit ban, but my attitude towards that is "You can't fire me I quit"
We're free of the mundanes, I can say what I want as long as I'm not being toxic af! No auto-moderator is going to flag me for using "Ableist Langauge" because I can't keep with what terms have and haven't been considered "problematic"
I mean, the word "retard", obviously (God what places on the Corpo Net can you say THAT word nowadays?), that's not cool to say. But seriously I had one auto-mod flag me for saying "crazy" because it was "offensive to the mentally unwell"
Bitch I'm bi-polar and literally autistic, I AM mentally unwell, I think I have an n-word pass in this instance... Not that I should need one to say "crazy"
Yes. It's like saying you've moved on, while talking about your ex every chance you have.
Still, IMO, ideas should be considered no matter where they come from. They can just be dismissed.
I feel like it might be bit close-minded to think there might not be anything good to learn/implement. The core still has some Aaron Swartz in it.
I like being able to say what I want without being banned by a power-tripping mod
There's currently nothing stopping a mod from creating a bot that deletes comments below certain threshold or that bans users for commenting on communities they don't approve like they did on Reddit. Only site policies can prevent that.
I hope this doesn't become a bot driven cesspool like reddit
Ugh.. I remember the "Sorry you have been banned from...." messages, it was amusing when I was banned from subreddits I hadn't heard of.
Thing is Reddit policies are supposed to make it so you can't be banned from one subreddit for your reputation or behavior in another, I actually told a mod this and he just laughed at me.
r/MegadethFansInTheWild
You are free of that awful place
Did karma ever stop anyone from posting their racist, hateful shit on the other site?
Nope. Frankly a karma system would be such a terrible idea for Lemmy. We just need more mod tools, which is a downside of Lemmy being a new platform that grew really quickly.
Never. It only insensitived the other bad behaviors. Karma farming, fake content, and reposting.
Those posting bad stuff often upvoted themselves on other accounts anyway.
For the karma whores out there, if you want a karma system so bad, go back to reddit where you belong. - Ex-Karma whore
Not to mention the karma system on Reddit created some of its most annoying users. Would be terrible to bring it here.
I always hated those subs that prevented you from posting unless you had a minimum amount of karma.
I used reddit for nearly a decade, but sometimes I wanted to make a throwaway for a specific, non-trolling purpose but was unable to do anything because of stupid, worthless karma.
Imagine being so addicted to social media you let a number change his you act. Absolutely sad.
I agree with you, but it's an addiction to approval. It's similar to cracking a joke and everyone laughing at it. It is sad but it's also pretty human.
How alternatively: imagine being so addicted to social media, that you want a system to get a high score.
In my early days of reddit i got a bit invested in karma. Enough that i did change the way i posted a bit. I got a few 1or 2k comments, noticed they were pop culture references, and tried to emulate that success.
I grew out of it, but you see how the karma system incentivizes that type of comment.
Verry sad. Its also not entirely their fault, reddit is there to take advantage and amplify their worst traits.
Saying what you mean can be impossible when every sub demands "respect" or "civility" instead of honesty, accuracy, and appropriate behavior.
Sometimes telling someone to go fuck themselves is entirely appropriate.
Sometimes explaining to someone why they're being a moron is entirely appropriate.
Yes, you can navigate those situations with G-rated kum-by-yah language, and you can eat yogurt with a fork. But demanding anyone do that is aggravating fucking nonsense.
Intense moderation can create a forum where there's never reason to poke someone over what an asshole they're being - but that's not what anyone's doing, here. They're mostly protecting trolls, by refusing to comprehend what trolling is. It's not when you say dumb shit you don't mean and people get mad at you, like some playground argument with one smirking child in a shouting match about the make-believe. It's people spreading disinformation with textbook fallacy. It's emotional abuse with "do you still beat your wife?" level manipulation. It's not deep. It's neither hard to spot nor hard to call out.
But what's currently forbidden is calling it out.
Insisting people take it in good faith is failure. That's exactly what trolls demand. It is the only way trolling accomplishes anything, ever. If they just said dumb shit nobody believed, there'd be no problem. But the appearance of a sane argument, and the trappings of "debate" around their infuriating horseshit lies, create false legitimacy. It helps abusive dishonesty spread. It is actively ensuring that whatever "free marketplace of ideas" is supposed to filter out total garbage, can't.
And anyone who falls for them going 'punishing me would only make me stronger!' is incapable of dealing with a smirking child. They're just fucking lying. It's not deep, or hard to spot. Call their bluff and see what happens. The answer will apparently blow your mind.
I wish lemmy does not implement it ! I am here all day now !!
I'm right there with you panCat! Leave Karma totals out of Lemmy UI and major apps! It just encourages karmaw-horing behaviour.
The Karma system was never a great system, I thought. Due to group think on Reddit, at times people get downvoted for no good reason. I think it's good to have a little diversity and not just have a model. I like Lemmy so far a lot and I think it is getting better and better. This is exactly how red it should have been, but they ruined it, of course.
I would go one further and say that there shouldn't be downvotes. That way, "good" posts and comments still rise to the top, but you don't have somebody's comment sitting at -60 because they pissed off the hive.
Reddit used it to brigade not just shitposts but anyone who went against the groupthink. The great leader says you must not express counter-revolutionary thought.
But isn't there a karma system? At least I'm seeing points on posts and comments and that's what karma is/was on Reddit right?
Karma on reddit is the sum of upvotes an account has received on all it's posts and comments combined. Lemmy only has the voting per individual post and comment, but doesn't accumulate this as a sidewide score.
Lemmy only has the voting per individual post and comment, but doesn’t accumulate this as a sidewide score.
Lemmy does have a karma system. Here's yours.
If Lemmy's karma system can stay as it is, without adopting the Reddit way of how it handles it, I guess it's fine. Personally, I'd like to at least have some place to go to, that doesn't have likes, doesn't have karma points or anything. Because it just encourages people to groom themselves to say things, that'll garner the most attention. It invalidates your way of thinking and makes you check back on scores to feel validated.
I hate that I can't go almost anywhere anymore, without seeing some stupid form of a karma points system. It serves no purpose. Reddit's is worse because they tie your account to it. Don't have enough? Welp, too bad, can't post here. Got downvoted to oblivion? Welp, too bad, gotta wait some 10 minutes and fill a stupid captcha check.
If Lemmy can avoid that, then fine, I guess.
I spent a fair amount of time on reddit over something around 15 years (I think) and not once did I happen upon someone with -100 karma that didn't earn it by being a troll. I found it very useful to be able to weed out people who weren't actually commenting to further the conversation, but derail it. Is that the type of thing you're talking about not wanting?
Frequently though people with -1 to -10 karma on a comment were just saying something that went against the hive or even dared to question it.
As an experiment sometimes I'd say something slightly against the tide, nothing even provocative. It would get downvoted into the basement and I'd see it start slowly then it would get pigpiled on. Then I'd post the same comment, say, a few hours later and it would be strongly upvoted. The same pattern of slowly getting upvoted and then rapidly increasing.
People are confusing (probably due to intentional prompting by those trolls trying to have bystanders fight their battles for them) the very real problem on Reddit that if you chase karma there were benefits to be had in terms of credibility and reach of your messaging and so whatever entities might benefit from such would tend to fill the space over in Reddit with content like that. Realistically that doesn't change the most common content much as it really comes down to the sort of thing people will upvote but it did make it a bit worse. That's being confused with some notion that somehow anyone who wasn't chasing karma was entirely ignored. That just isn't true. You might not be the absolute center of attention unless you've either post or said something especially worthwhile but so what?
A point system does help to bring popular topics to the top. If someone gives good advice and it gets enough upvotes then it rises to get more views by the larger audience. I think if there was a way to eliminate the point system and still give good stuff a louder voice then I would say that's the system we need.
You could basically always skip the first 3-5 comments on every post because their only purpose was to gain as much karma as possible. There were way too many generic comments that you would see over and over
Uh...go to Discord then. It seems like a free for all.
Anyone who demands a karma system on Lemmy should honestly stay tf out of here.
Lemmy already has a karma system
I agree, but there already is a karma system.
Can I ask for a Korma system? I'm hungry.
I'd rather a shawarma system. Looks tasty.
Gimme a spagbol system instead. I want something more tomatoey.
I'm not understanding how lemmy doesn't have karma when there's still the upvote/downvote function and profiles still mark how many votes you got for comments and posts.
Edit: Someone asked what app I'm using but I can't find the comment. I'm using Connect for Lemmy
The upvote/downvote system by itself is really just a human powered sorting algorithm that uses consensus to move the most relevant comments up where they can be seen, and to hide unproductive comments at the bottom.
So if all you have is an upvote/downvote system, that's all it is. Note that it doesn't matter that much, with a simple up/down system, if you got a bunch of downvotes. Your comment got buried, but that's kind of the end of it.
Karma is a score attached to individual users that probably sounded like a good idea at the time, but it tallies whether you have more upvotes than downvotes, and probably some other mess under the hood. It was supposed to be a measure of how often a given user provides relevant and helpful feedback to others. In practice, it's a social credit score like the one being developed by the Chinese government.
Even worse, karma got used as a metric to aim for, and it's what you used to make sure that your accounts were marketable to buyers, who wanted lots of positive comment karma on accounts, so they could post where they liked once they bought them.
When Reddit was born it was even techy-er than it is, now. So there was a lot of discussion about programming, and programming problems, similar to what happens on Stack Overflow these days.
Imagine I've asked Reddit a programming question of some sort, and soon, some comments reply.
User A, first on the scene: Idunno, man this looks like a tough one (doesn't answer the question, not really relevant)
User B, who showed up later: Ah yes, that's a bitch [proceeds to answer the question in detail, very helpful to OP and everyone else].
So, as a user, even a spectator, you were supposed to upvote User B, and maybe downvote A. Upvoting B was more important than downvoting A, since the upvotes would bring B's answer up to the top, anyway, while A's answer would fall down without anyone downvoting them on purpose. You were supposed to be hesitant to downvote, because of this. The poor answer essentially downvotes itself, no need to dogpile on User A.
Without a karma system, that's the end of it. User A's poor answer has no bearing on their treatment anywhere, their performance is not recorded and shown to the public at all, and User B may develop a reputation as a helpful person by name alone, but there's no karma, there, either. The whole thing stayed within the context of that post. User B's helpful post floats to the very top of the thread on a wave of upvotes, the end.
With a karma system comes a new dimension.
User B, who provided the great answer, would begin to accumulate positive comment karma, and in theory this would help you to judge B's answers in the future, just like you check the reviews on an Amazon listing. Remember that B might be answering a question on which you were ignorant, so you depend on karma to see if this person gives good answers, usually, or if he's just troll noise.
Reddit was born in the era of people asking a computer question and getting, "oh, yeah, just delete system32" as an answer. For the record, that is a very important Windows system process you must never delete, so that's just troll shit, trying to fuck an ignorant person over for lulz.
Reddit was trying to thwart that with the karma system, they needed people to be able to ask questions and get good faith answers. If a user provided lots of troll answers and lies, that should mean lots of downvotes from other users, negative karma. People know not to trust this person's answers, at least not easily. If they have tons of positive karma, shit man, that might be The Woz answering you for all you knew, a good sign.
It was entirely up to you, the user, to be very high-minded about this. So, even if User Z said something that you didn't like, but it added important information to the conversation, you would still upvote that comment. That kinda sorta worked, but then the Great Digg Migration happened, and a flood of normies came on board.
Normies all used the downvote button for what it was obviously for, it's a fuck you go away I don't like you button. It was pretty naive to think it would be anything else, but the founders had high hopes.
Now you can start accumulating negative comment karma from saying or doing things other people don't like, it doesn't take much, and automated moderation systems will start doing things like blocking you from joining communities because you have too much negative comment karma. It is assumed that you would have better karma if you weren't a shitty person. However, it's easy to abuse. If a bunch of fashy people downvote the everloving shit out of somebody for saying something like "black lives matter" now the wrong damn person ended up with lots of negative comment karma.
The fash can also open lots of extra accounts and upvote the hell out of each other and themselves, so they have lots of positive comment karma while being literal practicing Nazis at the same time. It's pretty easy to game the karma system and not very useful anymore. In practice, your karma score just records how often you comment things that the Reddit hive mind agrees with. The highest karma points probably belong to bots.
It's problematic, to say the least.
So it's possible to ditch the karma system entirely while still using upvote/downvote, they're actually two separate things. Since we are no longer all that worried about a solution to programming questions, and since the idea of karma got corrupted and stepped on pretty bad, it would be nice to leave it the hell behind with Reddit, where it belongs.
That is what OP is arguing for. Perhaps on the Fediverse we can forge ahead with new approaches, and let this Reddit-like situation be a springboard to something better in the future, something more unique to Lemmy itself.
One problem I foresee is that it would be too easy to game any karma system in a federated space. One could conceivably create their own instance and use bots to give "unearned" upvotes.
Several apps already show total user comment and post upvotes.
Here is your profile from Memmy
I think I saw somewhere that there is still karma but it isn't viewable.
Some instances hide it, iirc
Does it? I don't think it records how many upvotes you've received.
Maybe it depends on the app/instance? I can click on your profile and see you have 500+ points, for example. So I'm still confused on the whole lemmy doesn't have karma thing when I see basically lemmy karma.
Reddit weighed things according to total amount of karma the poster had. afaik Lemmy doesn't have that feature
I've been using Connect for Lemmy, and it lists all your points on your profile. I didn't even realize that wasn't included on the website until right now.
What does that mean
The fediverse has karma, it's just not written on the website in your face
Connect for Lemmy is an android app. Based on Sync for Reddit which shutdown unfortunately. Both 3rd party apps for the websites.
Sync for Lemmy is on its way though, which is the original creator u/jdawson and should also have the karma system.
All these people talking about not having a karma system look a little foolish since I'm literally down voting them as I read it.
Karma sucked ass on Reddit. Essentially people could ban you from participating because you pissed too many people off even though you didn't break any rules.
Karma count is an ass kissing metric, high karma shows that you kiss people's asses for upvotes, low or negative karma shows that people dislike what you say which is absolutely ok. People having different opinions vs going with the group is the difference between a healthy platform and an echo chamber.
By the way Trolls and malicious actors who that system is targeting should be dealt with directly. If someone's posting hateful transphobia instead of downvoting their acount they should just be BANNED from the community or the platform as a whole, keep bad people out of the community.
But a Karma system doesn't impact your ability to post? Or 99% of other poster's opinions of you...
(Disclaimer: Don't care either way, never considered someone's "karma" at all, ever.)
If you have less than x amount of karma on a good portion of subReddits you can't post at all.
True. But then you got 1 karma for every comment you made anywhere on the site and often the requirement was like 50 karma.
Restricting posts to users who have managed to make a maximum of 50 comments that didn't overwhelmingly piss everyone off isn't actually very restrictive.
I really don't buy into any of this "oh, you had to only say what people wanted you to say!" handwringing. I never once saw a user with negative karma who wasn't just there to actively cause trouble. I'm quite certain this notion that you had to subscribe to some sort of groupthink to make it through the karma system originates from a very tiny number of people who perceive not being actively anti-social in a social space as oppressive persecution of their "totally valid" "alternative opinions". By all means, show me accounts that were actually participating in good faith that were pushed out of the conversation by the karma system and I'll loudly complain with you on their behalf.
But you can't do that. Because they're always some flavour of racist nazi troll dickhead.
I said whatever the hell I wanted and was frequently confrontational or contrarian and still had some embarrassingly high amount of karma simply because I participated a lot and wasn't actively there to fuck things up by intentionally being a toxic edge-lord troll.
Yes it does. Some filtering is done by reddit and some by the mods. Also your votes don't count if you don't have certain amount of karma accumulated on the sub you are voting.
People are saying it does, "automod"
It impacts what you post as people game the system or even just refrain from opening a new dialouge or saying somthing controvertial.
That number needs to be sold to you with hype, reddit did that because it drove traffic and addicted people. People putting a short 2 word answer just to farm karma, relizing it or not.
Trolls love and others don relize how reddit hilighting the golden number makes people have a varry weak mind. to me, you and others, its a mild static electric shock. To the artifitially grown man babies, its an electricution
Obligatory xkcd;
xkcd [(link)](https://xkcd.com/1911)
gem (Gem) research.
Agreed :/
Yep,this way we have less bs/repetitive posts just trying to farm karma.
In a way I agree. In my experience with Reddit, the closest you'll get to posting somewhere with zero downvote risk is in r/CasualConversation, and even there, there have been times I've had fate handed to me because of some form of bad influence. There was one question where I basically got called a narcissist for, of all things, asking for advice on what makes an apology good, and ended up getting the short end of the karma stick.
I got banned from a subreddit for disagreeing with a mod's comment. Asked him what rule I broke and he ignored me. lol
Sometimes things get weird with upvotes and downvotes. I've been downvoted for pointing out that RCV still has spoilers, which is just a mathematical fact, but people don't like bad news.
What....what is the number under the post I'm making right this second? What is the overall number when I click on my profile?
On Lemmy.World the only numbers I see tracked in my profile are the total posts and comments I've made.
IIRC, someone mentioned Kbin actually shows a total updoot count on your profile. Lemmy does track it, but it's up to the instance/app you're using whether it's displayed anywhere.
I said what I wanted anyway, the karma system didn't affect your ability to say what you want. But yes, the karma system wasn't perfect, nooo way.
It did if your karma was low enough. It also affected whether your votes were counted or not.
In my experience with having Karma as a mod. If the person had negative karma they were a troll or a really bad person. Giving us the ability to make a community feel welcoming.
What's karma, i was on reddit for 12 years and never looked into it.
It's a system of points where if you make enough ad revenue for reddit u/Spez sends you a dick pic as a sign of appreciation.
Oh man. I would have Karmawhored harder if I had known that was a reward tier.
I earned 7 dicks!
I never liked reddit Mods ,they had too much power.
And zero accountability.
True ,you can't even complain about them to reddit.
I agree. One clear example is banning someone for participating on a community the mod doesn't like. Admins should learn from reddit's mistakes and limit what mods can and can't do.
Please elaborate a little, I really want to know how its relivant to the conversation of karma. The answer is likely going to be interesting
Then you will be disappointed, because from my pov getting Karma is very easy ,I was talking about how the mods can take you at the verge of perma ban just by banning you from their subreddit,you can't even access to that site and you will be Permanently banned from both accounts. mods Removed what ever they wanted to which did not matched their opinion even if the comment was in right subreddit and right thread.
What do you mean, no karma system? There is a karma system.
No idea why we'd want it...
Even on Reddit, it didn't do much.
Lol ok
I never paid attention to the karma and would say what I fucking wanted to anyway. The votes mean nothing to people who don't sort by the dumb shit algorithms.
I love that this was the first comment for me even though it had -1 net votes
Sort by New FTW
Do people really consider karma to mean the sum of your comments' and posts' points and not the points themselves?
Yes? I don't think I've ever heard the vote totals on individual posts and comments referred to as "Karma", just upvotes and downvotes. In my experience Karma is exclusively used to describe the total on peoples profiles. "Karma farming" is increasing that number by posting lots of different low effort posts, not when someone posts something because they think that one post will get many upvotes, as an example.
It's a genuine question, because I still check my comments and their scores. Big numbers make me feel good, small numbers make me feel bad. (Not losing any sleep over it or anything.) So I could still see people who make posts they know will get a lot of points being referred to as "farming karma." The same way you might accuse someone of "fishing for compliments" on social media. If that makes sense.
Reddit new update will trade karma for food
This post really narwhals my bacon
It rally speaks to the new system and community that this comment landed at the bottom of this thread. No offense to your comment. It’s just a case in point haha.
idk, I say the same stuff regardless. Sometimes people like what I say, sometimes they don't
If saying what you want to say tanks your karma, the problem might be you and not the karma system.
I agree but my dude this meme format is for being intensely sarcastic about things you hate, not saying how much you actually love something
It's cool though
But I want my sweet sweet pointless internet points
Kbin already has something called reputation buried in the profile.
Bravo
"Shitty dick triples, triple dipped in shitty applesauce" could not exist in karma world. Really think about that.
Karma needs to stay on reddit
Fork the code, add Karama, and run an instance.
It's also here. Just hidden normally.
I can finally denounce the lizard people conspiracy to steal my catfood!!! Damn you lizard people! Buy your own cat food!!! This is mine to eat!!!
What are these upvotes? Here, take one.
Other than karma to post limits, I've never understood why people gave a shit about fake internet points.
I think it was always the same psychology of making a number go up makes people get dopamine or something. Otherwise, it was a system to try and filter out bots used for astroturfing that I felt didn't really do a good job. There were always plenty of karma farming bots that would literally just copy and paste a different comment to create a fake post history.
I guess I do get a bit of a dopamine hit when someone likes an individual post of mine, but beyond that, like an overall "what do people think of me in terms of how many posts I get upvoted?" Couldn't care less. But sure, someone telling me they liked what I said enough to make a tiny bit of effort to tell me that, that's nice.
Its original intent was to filter good vs. bad content. Prior to karma/voting systems, message boards were just a list of the most recent posts by anyone. With a voting system, people can decide what content best fits the community's purpose. If I post a dog image on a cat forum, people can downvote the post so newcomers aren't seeing dog pictures on a forum about cats. Without karma, you're relying entirely on moderators to manage that. It's basically crowd sourced moderation.
Karma has other issues for sure. It can be manipulated with bots. People tend to use it to say "I don't like this opinion" and not to say "this opinion is within the domain of this forum".
All of that being said, I believe karma systems should be hidden from the users. Jerboa is an Android app for Lemmy and it shows the karma count. I don't prefer that. I like being able to vote, but I don't want to feel the bias of "big number == good opinion". But I think karma is a good system for helping moderate the content that shows up in a forum. It's a democratic way of managing content. But it probably has room for improvement.
You always could do that.
Let's meta
Oh I thought this was talking about videogames.
We have one, it's just not visible on official clients.
Everything below this line is a hate thread
Comments aren't always sorted by up and down votes. You moron!
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Downvoting because the line got too high
Don't check out my Lemmy scorecard, which calculates your karma for you using the Lemmy api!
You can still say what you want without karma...
While I don't need a Karma System I would like to have some statistics to brag about or at least to look at.
A lot of people agree with you
Congrats. You are part of the problem.
Downvoted out of spite /s
It's so useless that I actually feel better having that minus symbol next to the number in any post/comment that I make. Because I love the felling of shame. Yeah, I'm f***ing weird.
Fine, but can we at least federate with Meta?
Only nerds cared about positive karma. Real good comments always had downvotes.
Downvoting because real
Pebis
How about an opt-in system? Ie, you don't see it unless you specifically go and turn it on
Dumb question: what is there to gain by a karma system? How is it different from how lemmy already tracks up votes?
The form determines the function and use of a thing.
Remove votes from activitypub.
Then it already failed it's purpose as people seem to be more offended by anything than when they were on Reddit.
Let's get rid of downvotes next.
thus defeating the purpose of link and comment agregation.
