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What is your opinion about Lemmy not having karma but Kbin having reputation points? (lemmy.ml)

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

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Personally, I prefer Lemmy over Kbin because I hate karma and reputation points. I do not want to worry about downvotes, and Lemmy feels so fresh. I can post things that will receive lots of downvotes and not need to worry about losing karma.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just like on Reddit, I don’t care. As long as it’s not tied to my ability to interact with the community then let them have their silly internet points.

[–] flint5436 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But it influences the community itself, doesn't it? If you have a bunch of parrots saying what they think others want to hear suddenly you have a lot less real interactions and way more "reddit moments"... I like how mastodon did it and maybe lemmy should also provide the option to hide likes/dislikes alltogether.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

And the window of correct opinion keeps getting narrower. Any time there's a chance to gatekeep morality, someone out there wants to prove they're the most .

On any of the popular subs, no one's going to read your comment in good faith. They'll see what they wanted you to say and just reply to that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That is a great point. I definitely don’t enjoy the “hive mind.”

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One annoying thing on some subreddits was moderators auto-removing your posts unless you had a certain amount of karma.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The throttles are really useful. But I agree on the first post and the removals.