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let's discuss "karma" (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am curious to hear opinions on the concept of user karma in general.

Do people miss it?
Are we better off without it?

From a technicial perspective, I don't see why it couldn't be implemented. I understand Lemmy doesn't track this explicitly. However, using a users post and comment history you could come to a number pretty easily, right? I was considering making a toy app that would take a user and instance and spit out a karma score for post and comments, what would stop others from doing the same?

Will it be inevitably pulled into existence by Lemmy users as we mature the platform?

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[–] zorrothefox2001 1 points 1 year ago

If the purpose of karma becomes a reputation required to post (like on Reddit) it could hinder peoplea ability to instantly interact with a community. It definitely was a problem for new users on Reddit.