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Lemmy's design is focused on quality content by ditching the Karma farmers and addicts. No more chasing upvotes—people here actually focus on real value instead of feeding the ego.

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[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 5 points 15 hours ago

Shit, I'm sorry. I had close to 1m before I bailed. It was all quality comment karma though. I just have no life.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 5 points 57 minutes ago

We have plenty of astroturfing bots & powermods here. Once karma becomes a worthwhile metric for some to filter by, it’ll be abused & manipulated here, too.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 15 hours ago

Thanks, kind stranger! Here's an updoot and Reddit Silver!

[–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

I think the only way to really fix this is to make votes a limited asset that accounts have. There are forums where this has worked okay: bodybuilding.com forums has a reputation system where accounts are limited in what they can give to other voters.

As long as “karma” is unlimited it suffers from the same problems whether you count it in aggregate or not. As some other commenters have said, people still seek validation in individual comments. I know because I do too.

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[–] Emmie@lemm.ee 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Just value content

Lemming36: Here is a high quality 46 MB photo of a shiny bat poop straight to .world HDD

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com 3 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

No, there's karma. I've had more than a couple guys point out mine is negative.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

I think some apps will request all of your comment history and manually calculate karma but it’s not tracked by lemmy

[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 3 points 6 hours ago

For context for the people downvoting this: Lemmy doesn't have karma, but Mbin does and it shows karma for Lemmy accounts too.

[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago

That’s right! I said good shit in tech posts that was worth upvoting so others can see. Then there was an bad comment I wrote in patientgaming that deserved the downvotes and not worth reading.

[–] Muehe@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago

Isn't Karma essentially just the delta between upvotes and downvotes you get with some sort of weighting thrown in?

Because you can very much get that delta on here, it just isn't visible in the default Lemmy interface. If you look at your account through an Mbin frontend for example you can see the "Reputation points" value in the sidebar: https://fedia.io/u/@wittycomputer@feddit.org

[–] Bonus@lemm.ee 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Can't say I ever cared about karma. Lemmy reminds me of stripped down original reddit. Almost original. I remember when Reddit didn't even have thumbnails. Back then, there was a thing called memepool. You didn't know what you were going to get when you clicked on links on either site. There was a lot of fun unpredictable content and Reddit still meant you read it and we're vouching for it. It was like this whole world of quality stuff from really smart people. Thumbnails and subreddits ushered in a series of trashings and lead to intense divisiveness reddit never recovered from. . .

[–] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 hours ago (6 children)

Just don’t be a woman on Lemmy.

Sure, most people won’t downvote or harass you just for being a woman (a lot will.. we didn’t get the best of Reddit at all, and I doubt the new adoptees are any better…) but they will often enough make things difficult even if they aren’t actively causing problems.

But men of Lemmy (aka the vast majority of the user base since they ran off all the womenfolk) don’t care. They see that as quality control or some dumb shit, because THEY aren’t interested in woman things, so nobody should be, or they think their “as a man” comments should be important or some shit... Whatever the post is about. If it doesn’t cater to them, it can fuck right off.

Which is why cis women make up <10% of the Lemmy side of the fediverse. It’s a disaster for women here.

But I wonder how long you’ve been here. Most of the posts of this nature are from very new accounts and they don’t know the problems yet…

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I've not had a problem here, do you have examples of this? Not saying it does not exist, more curious as I've found this space a lot kinder than reddit.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 15 hours ago

Oh my sweet summer child,!

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