Comment on Why doesn't Lemmy have a system like Reddit's Karma?
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I don’t actually understand the purpose of karma on Reddit, beyond some sort of metric to feel good about yourself. It’s literally just a number and nothing else.
I’ve seen some people try to devalue what someone said because of “low karma”, so I’d say it’s a good thing Lemmy doesn’t have a karma system.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 week ago
Karma has become a part of a measure to determine if an account is a human non-troll.
The first step in ban evasion is to create a new account and continue doing what you’ve done before. By requiring an account to be a certain age along with a certain amount of karma, it makes sure the account is less likely to be a ban evader.
T156@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That was the original intent. That it became a measuring contest is separate.