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Against Lemmy Karma (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by gylotip@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

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There is already a total count of up- and downvotes, but please never add karma to Lemmy. We don't want to deal with karma farmers and minimal karma requirements to post. I don't care about the moderation issues because karma brought more harm than good. Please never add that bloody dreadful thing to Lemmy. I already saw a bunch of people supporting adding karma to Lemmy, which will turn Lemmy into a cheap Reddit clone and karma-farming hell. Please, never add karma to Lemmy. I beg you. No more karma hell.

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[–] theragu40@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It was a way for people to visibly see some kind of validation. Whether it was validation that their ideas were appreciated, or validation that their trolling was successfully pissing people off, validation that someone simply saw and acknowledged their thoughts, or something else...I believe people intrinsically like assigning a visible numeric score to their efforts.

I'm not arguing for karma, and certainly not arguing for it here. But I understand why people like it.

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I paid attention to it in the short term for those reasons - like, did anyone see my recent posts? Approve of them? Disagree/chastise me? A suitable substitute would be something that gave you a sum for the past 1-3 days. The running total was never very meaningful to me.

[–] voluble@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

For sure, all those reasons. I didn't really care what my karma total was, but I would look at other users karma before deciding to get into a debate just to get a sense if they were a troll, karma whore, or regular joe. Sort of gave you a quick picture of who you were talking to. FWIW, I don't miss it as a feature at all.