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I think it can encourage unintended behaviors like karma farming.

I’ve seen similar trends in some FPS games in which during immediate game play your kill to death ratio is hidden to keep people engaged with the main loop instead of getting worked up over their stats.

I think having no reputation point is a good thing, it gives no incentive to post low-effort content just to get reputation points.

I hate gamification of… Everything, but if it’s just “oh hey I’ve been here for X years and at some point I got 5000 upvotes / 800 downvotes, that’s cool I guess”, I’m kinda for it actually.

It’s like with videogame achievements. They’re not super important for most people, but sometimes it’s nice to look back at the stuff you’ve played or what you had to overcome. Some are addicted to it too. Real life doesn’t give you much satisfaction in this way.

I like that Lemmy doesn’t have karma points, and hopefully it never will. I actually wish that it didn’t even have the downvote button. For me, that was one of the bad things about Reddit, you could just make an innocent comment, and users would downvote you for no reason. I didn’t even realize Kbin had reputation points. I’m glad that I chose Lemmy.

I think not having karma tells the user that they don’t have to care about posting the “right” things. This is better, as I think the karma system of Reddit promoted conformity, as people wanted to gamify their experience on the site, and even created a weird economy of people selling high karma accounts to advertisers or whoever wanted karma for whatever reason.

So yeah, I prefer not having visible karma.

I think karma could in some ways be fun, but overall was more of a liability than an asset for Reddit. I’m glad Lemmy didn’t have it. Reduces karmawhoring incentives

I just wanna see some memes

I kinda don’t care either way I guess.

I kinda like how it is now.