this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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[–] MeowyNin 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For real. A community doesn't need an inherent popularity contest.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plus no karma farms, imagine posting for the sake of it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why were there Karma farms anyway? Is there any benefit on Reddit for a lot of Karma?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Different subreddits had different rules. In some subs you needed loads of karma to post.

Karma farming was also used to bump up the account so that it could be sold to malicious buyers for propaganda or spam posting purposes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know you can't post in certain subreddits without some amount of Karma but it is usually low like 10 or something. So I don't know why you would really care about an account with thousands of karma.

I don't think Karma plays a role in post viability or anything like that but I could be wrong.

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

In reddit mostly porn bots were karma farmers they spammed on certain subs where they got lots of likes and probably later on got into a scam or spam bot that tried to make money.

Funny thing is on r/worldpolitics you could post without any karma and no mods were present but bot attacks got downvoted very hard. Like politics or anything that the people didn't like there.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Although it would be good to see someone's karma with you. If I've downvoted someone more than 5 times, I'd like to know so that I can just block them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Good or bad I think it is kind of cool to have an easy way to know if have interacted with the random person before.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RES has tags and labels that you can create and stick to a user

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

But tags and labels on a user require an extra step on my part and it doesn't really integrate into the flow of the site. Karma score is just part of how the site works that requires no more extra effort on my part, as I was going to up or down vote them anyways.

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

It's very cool to meet people again in different sublemmyts. Feels like the federation thing is for realz.

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

Good points. Now it's small enough that you can often just recognize the username, but that could be a cool functionality to add later on.

[–] RomanRoy 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

No, Roy, we don't.

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

I just mistook a completely different user for an OP not even 24 hours ago. So no, I guess I don't 😅

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Exactly this. I like to know when someone is habitually being a clown so I can remove them from my life.

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

Saw your username. Do you know any Metal Gear Solid communities here?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Nope. And I'm okay with that. I just want to put stuff out there, I don't need points

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But if it did, I'm pretty sure I would have the most 😆

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

Wanna fight about it?

[–] Aurix 5 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't third party apps reintroduce that anyways, if we don't decide to ~~ban~~ charge them?

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

I've heard that some apps are already counting your karma. Not sure if the same applies to other users though.

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

Lemmy does have karma