Another Reddit refugee here,

I think we’re all familiar with the Karma system on Reddit. Do you think Lemmy should have something similar? Because I can see cases for and against it.

For: a way to tracking quality contributions by a user, quantifying reputation. Useful to keep new accounts from spamming communities.

Against: Often not a useful metric, can be botted or otherwise unearned (see u/spez), maybe we should have something else?

What do you all think?

  • solstice@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 year ago

    Anyone here old enough to remember slashdot? I liked their karma system. The maximum a post could get was +5, and I think the minimum was -1. I don’t quite recall the details, but it was pretty effective. People didn’t shamelessly karma farm because there wasn’t any point. If you are at +5 there’s nowhere else to go.

    • Tsuki@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I have heard of Slashdot before, but never thought of its karma system. Well I learned something today I guess

    • zeppo@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      I remember slashdot’s voting system (+5 insightful! You chose an attribute to describe why you were voting up or down the post), but did they have an all-time karma total displayed?