Lemmy
Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.
For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.
Intentionally, Lemmy itself doesn't total your upvotes and downvotes. You can go to your profile and see them for a given comment or post, but not an overall total. Some apps do show it.
Most of us agree that Reddit karma caused people to post and say things just for the karma, which was an overall negative. People put too much value in the score. So while we have upvotes and downvotes, they're deemphasized, and that's on purpose.
My post was mostly lighthearted. But ir might be concerning that Lemmy doesnt incentive activity somehow . Aggregators are as good as how many people participate
I'm not sure there's less incentive to post generally, but there's less incentive to repost old stuff, misleading headlines, etc.
fair enough
God no
If you're serious some of the apps track vote counts though it seems like it resets every once in a while.
There seems to be two bugs with the calculation. First of all the count doesn't sum properly, secondly it resets to 0 when you delete a comment.
We don't do karma here, one of Lemmy's major improvements over Reddit.
This isn't really true, Lemmy does keep track of the amount of upvotes you get some of the mobile apps display it.
The total is just not displayed on the websites.
it is left to see if this is an improvment.
I've been here a month after 15 years at the other place, and it's an improvement.
Sorry you got clusterbombed, though. You asked a fair question, something I wondered too when I first got here.
Same profil : 15 year in reddit, and I feel it is bad since 10 year. I'm here since yesterday and Lemmy is not an improvment. Of course a smaller community make everything more comfortable. But today I already see a repost from yesterday. The same content cluter the front page. I got timed out. And seen more pussy pics in 2 days than in my whole reddit carrier (ok that might be a plus)
My point is: The community need to grow. encouraging participation help with that. And the concept of instance seems to already dilute the feeble engagement
There's no karma, only post/comment score.
Karma is often a perverse incentive; in theory it's supposed to encourage good quality content, but in practice it encourages unnecessary reposts + barely acceptable (but easy to judge) content.
Karma doesn't exist here.
Accumulated karma is not officially tracked. You can however see how many up votes and down votes you have on your posts and comments in the profile section.
Is that value stored on the home instance of the user? I think summing karma is a terrible measure of an account. So if it's stored in the instance, I'll update mine to be a large random value.
Maybe we can have the admins of all instances update the value for all users to a random value to make it worthless.
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Bad bot. OP is a newbie asking an honest question, and for that they get booted by a bot?
It would make sense to notify a human mod when a post is drowning in downvotes like this one, but it's a mistake to trust the bot to hand out suspensions.
That's obviously someone making a joking point about karma.