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?
I love the mastodon approach. Each instance is free to enable this numbers, but by default all numbers of up, down, likes, boosts or retweets are hidden. It makes for such peaceful interactions and stress free browsing. There’s no number to track and cause anxiety or anguish.
Lemmy can do this too, some servers don’t have karma.