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Comment on Do you feel this place has gotten more.. reddit-y lately?

I think one of the problem is all the influx of apps and webUIs that display “karma” also known as points as a total. Now people are starting to follow some kind of mental herd of saying the right thing to not get downvoted.

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Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
As a rule applied to myself, disabling of showing vote numbers is one of the settings I activate.

And make it a point to not look at “points” displayed by the app.

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- foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  OP in this thread trying to tell me off because I caught a few downvotes like it’s not the most reddit shit in this whole thread.
  
  I also do not display scores. Just toxic, creates echo chambers.
  
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  - Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah it also creates fake opinions. People posting shit that agrees to what the majority says just to get a few more up votes. And dissent means being ostracized by being handed a mass down vote
    
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Alivrah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I remember thinking karma was a neat system when I joined Reddit, but it only ended up creating a toxic atmosphere.

I get that a score system might be valuable for posts themselves, but I wish we didn’t have them on individual profiles…

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