Another Reddit refugee here,
I think we’re all familiar with the Karma system on Reddit. Do you think Lemmy should have something similar? Because I can see cases for and against it.
For: a way to tracking quality contributions by a user, quantifying reputation. Useful to keep new accounts from spamming communities.
Against: Often not a useful metric, can be botted or otherwise unearned (see u/spez), maybe we should have something else?
What do you all think?
The only use for karma is filtering trolls
Lemmy hasn’t gotten a large enough population to need that kind of filter yet, and it would require an automod capability to use anyway.
So, no, fuck the entire idea of it otherwise. Fuck the algorithm behind it, fuck the hidden nature of it.