Boooooooooo, karma farming is one of the reasons Reddit is the way it is. We don’t need bots scraping old posts, reposting them and then other bots posting the top comments from the old post. That along with the totally natural and candid “this product™ changed my life, so let me tell you about it” posts are my least favorite advent of the last decade of Reddit.
I started typing a reply to agree with you, in that it would possibly motivate people to post things that were personally interesting or meaningful, rather than relying on cliched tropes to drive engagement (much like the movie industry).
But on the other hand, there are so many other platforms where karma or a karma equivalent isn’t recorded (e.g. YouTube comments, Facebook comments), but uninspired, recycled messages still somehow regularly make their way to the top. I guess the dopamine from any perceived engagement that comes from an up or down arrow is too difficult to resist. So I don’t think anything will change either way.
I use the android app Jerboa. However, I also tried the app “Thunder”, only on GitHub atm iirc. And on your profile it displayed your cumulative sum of upvotes. Funnily enough not the comments themselves, just a score. Anyways, I hope less apps track that. It breeds the worst users.
I think the closest I would want to a total score would be maybe the ability to sort my own comments by vote count when reviewing them. But you shouldn’t be able to do that on other profiles.
Wefwef does keep tabs of your karma.
Boooooooooo, karma farming is one of the reasons Reddit is the way it is. We don’t need bots scraping old posts, reposting them and then other bots posting the top comments from the old post. That along with the totally natural and candid “this product™ changed my life, so let me tell you about it” posts are my least favorite advent of the last decade of Reddit.
I started typing a reply to agree with you, in that it would possibly motivate people to post things that were personally interesting or meaningful, rather than relying on cliched tropes to drive engagement (much like the movie industry).
But on the other hand, there are so many other platforms where karma or a karma equivalent isn’t recorded (e.g. YouTube comments, Facebook comments), but uninspired, recycled messages still somehow regularly make their way to the top. I guess the dopamine from any perceived engagement that comes from an up or down arrow is too difficult to resist. So I don’t think anything will change either way.
Either that or I’m old and cranky.
Aside from the bot issue I didn’t mind karma personally.
I use the android app Jerboa. However, I also tried the app “Thunder”, only on GitHub atm iirc. And on your profile it displayed your cumulative sum of upvotes. Funnily enough not the comments themselves, just a score. Anyways, I hope less apps track that. It breeds the worst users.
I think the closest I would want to a total score would be maybe the ability to sort my own comments by vote count when reviewing them. But you shouldn’t be able to do that on other profiles.
Wefwef says that it’s reported by the API and they just choose to show it so it’s not really wefwef keeping tabs.