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Comment on My life has been way better since I started keeping a cursory view of headlines once a day

Honestly I’ve thought cm002 was a bot before as well, but they engage in comment sections often enough to say either it’s not, or it’s a user hopping on to check bot progress.

Either way, most likely case is it’s a user that saw a funny meme, and reposted it since not every sire is federated with others and some communities might not see it, especially if it’s to a world or ml domain.

Possibly related, I did not see your post from this morning, this is my first time seeing it. Not sure about federation between instances but yeah.

Also tangentially related, anyone remember the huge r*ddit drama over a poweruser constantly reposting things with top comment responses to farm karma? That was a fun glance into people who take imaginary internet points too seriously. I’m glad lemmy doesn’t keep track of total votes.

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lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
the thing with reddit is that karma has a function. for example new users can’t post in most communities until they somehow get a lot of karma and posts from users with lots of past karma get pushed by their algos.

that’s why immaginary internet points are very serious on reddit and accounts with lots of it can (illegally) be sold for thousands of dollars to advertising companies.

this is the reason, i think it’s important to have votes in lemmy etc only matter per post/comment and only for sorting/displaying.

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YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I'm glad lemmy doesn't keep track of total votes.

It does, it just doesn't display it; sites running Mbin do, though:
A screenshot of an Mbin profile showing the "reputation" tab

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- SARGE@startrek.website ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Ew. Gross. I liked not knowing better. Ah well, at least I can’t check it myself so I don’t really care much. I didn’t want oemmy to feel like a competition like I used to feel occasionally with r*ddit.
  
  Also this is the first time I’ve noticed my name doesn’t show up as “Miles O’brien” for everyone. Now I’m sad :(
  
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- Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Does it? I thought mbin just tallied up the votes to get that number, I wasnt aware it was a tracked value for the fediverse.
  
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  - YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I'm not sure tbh, but it makes sense if it's just a tally
    
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ngdev@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
no they farm karma to sell the accounts for various purposes

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