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Thoughts on new Lemmy features to boost intent for posting more? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Thoughts on features to boost intent for posting more?

Like a karma system of that other forum website.

I currently miss a point system to motivate me that shows people via my profile how much I could help by posting/commenting. There's no system to create such feedback currently on Lemmy.

Are there statements by the creators of this platform about that?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (11 children)

Huh, I didn't even realize that there is no Reddit-like karma system. Well, Lemmy still tracks your total number of posts and comments, so there are those.

Maybe they just want to eliminate having to fetch yet another total, though I see that it does filter by your highest upvotes if you sort by any "Top" category. So someone may end up developing a third-party karma tracker, which may make its way into some Lemmy apps.

Activity is the bottom line for my personal draw to post and comment. I don't care what the vote count is if my submissions are at least being read and replied to; isn't that what matters? If the comments only have the OP's vote, who cares as long as they're insightful? For me, karma is not a measurement of helpfulness, and may in some cases even denote spamminess.

I have no idea of where to find the Lemmy devs' thoughts because general opinion across the fediverse has been training me to avoid Lemmy.ml lol.

Now that I think about it, why don't you use the biography space in your profile for this?

shows people via my profile how much I could help by posting/commenting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I have no idea of where to find the Lemmy devs' thoughts because general opinion across the fediverse has been training me to avoid Lemmy.ml lol.

why is that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

[–] [email protected] 1 points 51 minutes ago

thats just dumb for the growth of the platform....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

I've read multiple reports here and on Reddit of them banning users with communism-critical opinions.

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