How much karma are you burning? : reddit

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How much karma are you burning? (lemmy.ml)

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One of the things platforms use to keep us coming back and investing more of our time in building their site for them, is Internet Points. They don't do anything, but we still crave them.

On Reddit, these Internet Points are, of course, called "karma"

In moving on from Reddit, I'm burning over 80k karma.
It feels fine. I mean, it has no real value, and bots can scrounge up that amount of karma in an afternoon, but it still represents a sizable time investment.

How much are you burning, and how do you feel about it?

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

Yep, and we kinda get that same sort of dopamine hit here, just not the global karma, because there is no central place to collect global points!

[–] CoffeeTails 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think "local" karma makes more sense and I'd much rather have a point system than get hundreds of comments saying "I agree" because that's annoying af.

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

Ironically, I agree!

[–] CoffeeTails 1 points 1 year ago

ba dum tssss