Bots would just abuse such a karma system, wouldn’t they?
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imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee 10 months ago
A karma system is sounding pretty good right now… /me lifts shield and ducks
Even if it’s just a a limited tiered system with numbers to obsess about. Level - 1 browsing rights. Graduate to level 2 after 5 days and total of greater than 30minutes of logged in activity
Level - 2 commenting rights. Limited to 10 comments daily for 5 days.
Graduate after at least 3 comments, total upvote count >+3, and 5days.
Level 3 - posting rights. Limited to 3 posts daily for 5 days. Unlimited commenting.
Graduate after 5d and total upvote count >50
Level 4 — image posting rights. 10 images per day max
Graduate after 2 weeks and total upvote count >100
Level 5 - you’ve made it, everyone is equal here. Entry level users are still enjoying and growing into the community. No need to be a tool about trying to get more karma / points and number of bots / temp accounts / total losers should be minimal by this screening level.
Overlock@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Destragras@kbin.social 10 months ago
It would attract the karma farming bots that reddit has. Any website that has a privilege system like that causes accounts with more privilidges to be worth more to buyers.
imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yes for a karma point system. People will buy karma’s in the thousands, but how much are people going to pay for a max score of 5 that is just there as entry level screening buffer. I don’t imagine there would be sufficient value to go through the effort of farming these kinds of accounts.
imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Not many systems they can’t, but my outline is a lot of hoops to jump through and also has a significant time gate which limits rapid attacks. Also, there’s enough steps for opportunities for pattern detection to sniff out bots here as well
RoundSparrow@lemm.ee 10 months ago
A karma system is sounding pretty good right now
lemmy’s code already does it. person_aggregates keeps track of post_score and comment_score. It just isn’t displayed on lemmy-ui. A bot or new code can look at these values.
Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Welllll, my favorite discord does have a Recently Joined / New Member role. You need to post 100 text messages and have been there for 3 days before you have the ability to post images and access to the more spicy and sarcastic chats.
imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I think it would fit Lemmy well. Seems reasonable to lurk around a bit a first before dumping a bunch of pics onto servers right when you sign up.
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Unlike the features mentioned in the OP – all of which I support, though I regret 4’s necessity – I think this one would actually be harmful to the existing userbase because karma scores encourage pointless attention-seeking behavior, as Reddit demonstrates.
UlyssesT@hexbear.net 10 months ago
I am going to get downvoted for this, but (circlejerk baiting massively popular Reddit opinion) very-intelligent
imgonnatrythis@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I don’t see how that would happen if everyone just capped out at karma=5 within a few weeks