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What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago* by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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i can't stand megathreads -- no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

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[–] 173 points 3 years ago (13 children)

Karma-whoring. It's already started with the stupid "upote my can of beans" posts... Dude nobody cares about your internet points, either activity participate or fuck off to Instagram.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Have my upvote! (Sorry Had to)

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    This.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Repeats what you said, but slightly worse.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    This. It's why I hope we don't have any sort of Karma system on Lemmy.

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

    There's just no need for it. I like the ability to upvote/downvote posts for visibility, but a karma or point system just encourages whoring, which leads to a dirth of lazy and low quality content

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Up/Down vote systems also suck, and are inherently problematic, and encourage unhealthy behaviors. I say get rid of them.

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

    The one benefit of Lemmy is that you can see the total upvotes and down votes. So if a comment has 5k up votes, you'll also see that it has 4k down votes.

    Rather than 1k up votes like on reddit. This makes it far easier to see if bullshit is being spewed rather than just bot spammed up votes as often. It makes bots less effective imo. But what do I know, I'm no social media developer lmao

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    the upvote/downvote system is still problematic, because its roots are in exploiting addiction mechanisms via giving people that dopamine rush when they get high upvotes, and making them chase that high again.

    I really miss the pre-social media days when we had forums instead of...whatever reddit/lemmy are, when there was no upvotes, no karma, no nothing. You just made a post, and people replied to it. interaction without gamification.

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