Please no, no karma, nobody needs another dopamine addiction. Being able to positively mark good comments is helpful, but it shouldn't influence anything - only positive reinforcement.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2023
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No, and I believe to encourage free expression of opinion, negative score on comments/posts should be hidden. minimum displayed score should be 1. internally it should have impact. Too negative comments/posts should be auto reported to mods to check if they break rules.
No on karma but I would like to be able to buy and give awards as a way to support this
I actually liked karma points. But I can live without it. It's not that important.
Nah I dont even like visible upvotes/downvotes. Just incentives the complementary wrong mindset for healthy discussions.
Your reputation should be what people know of you not points.
I Gota downvote this idea. Karma was my least favorite part about Reddit
Not for me.
No need. New users can be kept in check simply by being new, as in age of account. Active users can determined by their history.
Adding a point system inherently makes it a game.
Unless its like Whose Line is it Anyway, where the "karma" points shown are random for each user, each day. That could be funny.
Welcome to the Fediverse, where everything is made up, and the points don't matter!
How would this even be implemented? What's to prevent one user from generating massive amounts of karma on their own instance?
Mfers arguing whether reddits equivalent of a captcha will affect social interaction.
No, it's not necessary. Who cares who contributes a lot? If a user cares about karma, then they should just stay at Reddit. We don't need this to be a Reddit clone.
There's already "Reputation Points" so don't we already have that, but by another name? I like this name much better than "karma" by the way. I'm kinda good with what we have. It feels like an echo of some things from Reddit are here without being a total clone. Hopefully it won't influence people toward bad/annoying behavior like on Reddit.
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I say no, it was ripe for abuse, with karma farming bots which get sold to entities looking to influence and astroturf a platform.
I say don't bother - if it can be gamed by bots, it will. Even Slashdot's mod/meta-mod system could be gamed by the current generation of bots, because a lot of comments / reposts look fine out of context.
If you don't have karma there's nothing to farm, and that means fewer karma farming bots and better overall quality of content.
I dont care about karma but i do like to see a users history, something i apparently cant do on mlem. Not sure if thats site-wide or just this app. Without that i wouldnt be able to confidently use the buy-sell communities that i did on reddit like knife_swap or watchexchange.
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I don't care either way. I can live without it.
Wait, there's no karma here? Bye, it's been fun.
Good riddance karma whore.
I think it should, but perhaps it shouldn't be as prominent as on Reddit, and maybe it should be called something more boring, like "post vote sum" or something, to make people place less importance on it.