this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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I don't like karma. It incentivizes short, meme-y posts since those are things that get gets a lot of karma.
That's correct. It's also horrible for the comments section because people hate-downvote comments they disagree with, which in turn leads to people avoiding making possibly unpopular comments. It's really hurtful to meaningful discussion.
Upload and down vote are still present, and unless I'm mistaken this comment section I'm looking at is still sorted by vote score.
Hate down votes are inevitable, I don't think they are a result of your total number of points being displayed on your profile.
I believe downvotes can be disabled at the instance level. (Small note)
That is an issues with the up vote/down vote system.
But a good thing with that system, is that it helps to keep away hate, racism, trash and dangerous content in most of the subs/communities.
So it's a bad for a good? Sorting by controversial on big posts often show trash and hate on reddit.
Yes but karma makes it worse. It incentivizes getting getting upvotes because you don't want to "ruin" your karma. Expressing controversial opinions, even if they don't generate downvotes, are discouraged with karma. Even OP says he gets a dopamine hit by seeing the karma number go up.
Everything else is still there in regards to how posts are shown and sorted by votes, as well as people in general just liking humor. I don't think Lemmy is fundamentally any different in that trend.