Was gonna make a poll "What do you think about the fediverse" ๐
This sort of thing is supposed to discourage the bots that reddit is plagued with.
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And you can look how well it's doing the job.
Totally reasonable moderation policy tbh
Only if done on a small scale. When it becomes the norm, and all the subreddits are doing it, then it becomes impossible to start a new account and build up the necessary karma to meet these thresholds.
Worse, it's a limit easily bypassed by bots. Spammers can start accounts and just let them sit on a shelf for a year prior to using them. They can farm karma by just reposting stolen content.
Oh, and of course, the real spammers simply buy up existing accounts with years of history to them and turn them into subtle spam bots.
In fact, Reddit could pull a Stack Overflow and enforce it on the entire site.
If you want to quickly and easily get past karma limits, just spend a day in AskReddit, answering posts in the 'rising' sort. Eventually one of those posts will take off and just because you answered early enough, you'll get hundreds or even thousands of upvotes. It's usually more about timing than quality there.
I remember maybe 10 or so years ago i was wondering how easy it is to rake up comment karma. And by easy i mean low effort. I went to /r/awww or some other "wholesome" subreddit and just spammed :) Somehow it got upvoted like crazy.
This sort of thing will inevitably come to lemmy in some form, as it becomes popular and spam becomes a bigger problem. I'm hoping we'll have more elegant solutions by then, so let's see
We already have: Manually-approved applications
Lemmy doesn't count karma or keep track of it though. Where as reddit does, and why bots are prevalent
If one is dedicated enough, they can set something up for their comms or instance. But ye, there's less incentive to farm karma for bots, but there's still a need to be able to figure out a "reputation" for a user if the spam problem becomes too big.