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I cannot currently see my "Lemmy Karma" (or whatever equivalent to reddit karma there could be) - is that something that is in the works? Or simply something that I need to activate?
Lemmy has no karma and frankly I don't want that kind of gamification. On Reddit, people were posting one-liners just to get karma. Intelligent discussion was not possible.
Ah, I see - so it is by design?
I can understand the concept, just wish it could be turned on for a personal user, if possible.
I've seen arguments on both sides that...make sense. Personally I don't care if there is or isn't a karma counter, but I've seen at least 2 dozen discussions about it and it got me thinking... What if it was just up to users to toggle it per user? Individual users can get the satisfaction of seeing their score climb as they use their account more and more, but you can't see other users karma (even if they have it enabled too), and by default it's turned off so the rest of Lemmy can't see your score or anyone else's. I think this would prevent shit posting cause there's no score to show off, it's just for you and you alone.