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stop asking for a karma system (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 29 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Also karma on Reddit is basically irrelevant. The only place it matters is in automoderation removing posts and comments for users under a certain level of karma.

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  • [+] 28 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Getting upvotes maybe, but nobody pays attention to their aggregate karma.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Not to be mean but, ritch folk dont watch their bank account directly, they have analog wasy of mesuring, like if they can buy "X" without renting.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Sure, that's what I'm saying though. Anyone who posts regularly has enough karma that it makes no material difference. It's one of those measures with high specificity when you have negative or low karma and almost no specificity once you get beyond some arbitrary minimum.

    Karma's return diminishes almost completely after you hit the bare minimum required not to get automoderated.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Posting comics on Reddit, I found it a quick way to see how well I made something and what people generally liked. Eventually though I started to become a little skeptical of the numbers, and hated having to play this game where those numbers might be better when posting at different times and different days. I couldn't help but feel like some of them were bought initially to heat, or boost their posts.

    I started to absolutely loathe those numbers, but I don't know what you can do to replace them.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago*

    Which is honestly freaking dumb. Sure you can do it with a big community but it will speed up the hivemind and alienate new users and frankly did nothing to curb bots because bots just farmed karma elsewhere on a sub where it was open by spamming posts and comments. And then went right back on the "threshold" subs.

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