• Smoogy@kbin.social
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    Rearward/punishment systems are corrupt. Good on lemmy for not playing into that bullshit

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      The worst was when the cryptocurrency subreddit started literally paying everyone for their karma. Over the course of a couple years, the useful criticism of bad ideas dried up, and so the people promoting bad ideas for profit took over.

      Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

      — Isaac Asimov

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      1 year ago

      I left kbin because they have reputation (karma) and peop3were already overly concerned about their rep score there. Bare 3 weeks and they’re rep whoring over there.

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        Some clients will count things up for you, it’s a way to keep people interested. Ultimately I agree that karma systems encourage people to take things to an extreme and defeat the purpose of interacting in a community. It’s like gambling.

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          It’d be better not to have that option, to avoid going the way of Reddit with karma farming bots reposting everything so they can sell their high karma accounts.