Comment on Why doesn't Lemmy have a system like Reddit's Karma?

• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Really, it was a nice idea but failed when subject to bad actors.

      God, if that isn’t just the story of our fuckin’ lives…

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