I never understood the karma thing. Why do I care about a made up number. Unless it equates to something tangible. I can see it to help with spam bots, but that's about it.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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For one thing it always spins it's own shadowbusiness. People with lots of karma did sell their accounts for a quick buck in the past. That also made the platform more full of bots.
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Why?
Posts should have the ability to be promoted or buried, to help highlight interesting stuff.
But why people? I don't get it. Isn't this place more like a forum than a social network?
Leave that crap for Facebook etc..
No.
Former redditor here. Never gave a crap about karma. Just here to laugh at funny Internet things.
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Karma is a double edged sword. I say, we don't need it but I can see why people want it.
Karma deezn
I am not a fan of the idea but a guy did just make a UserScript. https://feddit.de/post/1185964
That was fast, i mean it could help some peaople ease into lemmy. I quite welcome not having karma on lemmy as well.
What I really want is a "Lemmy Enhancement Suite" with all (or most) of the additional options that RES provided.
In particular I'm missing keyboard navigation, custom post filters (or just hiding posts in general), and collapsing in-line images. Those would be really nice to have here.
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I never understood this obsession with internet points to the point where people are willing to farm them. I guess on Reddit there was a monetary incentive, with people selling accounts with certain amounts of karma. Honestly to me it’s always been more like “cool, I got 48 upvotes on this post” or whatever, and move on with my day.
Nah, I'm good not seeing the numbers or having the awards and such.