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deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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