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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

But it has other negative side effects if we scaled Lemmy up in scale.

For example, it doesn’t matter if you downvote me if I called you a big stinky poo poo face. Because without a larger pool of karma to detract from, it doesn’t matter HOW unpopular any singular post is.

…you big stinky poo poo face!

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deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Because without a larger pool of karma to detract from, it doesn’t matter HOW unpopular any singular post is.

Voting is there to sort posts and comments, not to rate a user. Having a larger pool of karma serves no purpose.

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- Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The purpose is to rate the users. If you regularly contribute good quality content, you’ll have a high score.
  
  If you regularly engage in trolling, and harassment, and other shady activity, you get a negative score.
  
  Individual communities can set up guidelines, that if you have a new account under 6 months, and you have a negative overall karma, you’re banned from that community until a human can look through your post history to see if you should be unbanned.
  
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  - partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    The purpose is to rate the users.
    
    Individual communities can set up guidelines, that if you have a new account under 6 months, and you have a negative overall karma, ~~you’re banned from that community until a human can look through your post history to see if you should be unbanned.~~ you’ll have to repost previously highly upvoted content to pump up your karma numbers, until you have a positive overall karma.
    
    FTFY, I’d really prefer to leave that mistake of karma at Reddit instead of polluting Lemmy with it.
    
    Lemmy karma-less method also drastically reduces the value of bot accounts to farm karma (for nefarious or advertising use before being banned).
    
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  - TheInternetIsForLargeShrimp@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Nah. Reddit showed that karma systems are useless as they are too easy to manipulate. Buy/hijack a bunch of old accounts and suddenly, your scams or crazy propaganda are given artificial authenticity. Or, just use repost bots to farm karma. Really, it was a nice idea but failed when subject to bad actors.
    
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EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

…you big stinky poo poo face!

Well then damn it all; what more evidence do you need?!

The poo-pooing alone is a court-martial offence!

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PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Uı mın Reddit hæz ė mækſ impækt ðæt enı ƿu̇n poſt oṙ kȯment kæn hæv.

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I mean Reddit has a mac impact that any one post or comment can have.

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