Hi guys just wanted to know if Lemmy has any karma count for people in their profile like Reddit has? If so is it public and How can I access it? Edit: Thanks guys I’m so relieved that this kind of stuff is not prevalent here. I love the Fediverse ❤️
karma makes reddit worse. Up/downvotes are great but overall account karma is fucking terrible.
As a recovering karma whore, I can attest to this.
I was super active in drama subs because I am a drama whore at heart. I knew how to just farm karma on them. Lukewarm take with just enough ability to be disageed with that the “bad” people will interact driving up the interactions.
All you gotta do is post stuff like “thank you to the brave firefighters” on posts involving firefighters. Not knocking on firefighters or trying to diminish their contributions, but it was always hilarious seeing how many top comments basically said nothing more than that. I was always doing it as satire but I don’t think people realized.
You just received five MeowMeowBeanz.
What’s the conversion rate of one MeowMeowBeanz to one Schrute buck?
AFAIK it used to exist but was removed to avoid recreating stuff like karma farming and minimum karma limits. But it would be pretty easy to make a bash script that manually calculates the karma score
In short… no, Lemmy developers believe the karma mechanics on reddit incentivize bad behavior. (IE making bots or even just yourself re-creating past succesful posts) or just posting the obvious ideas that one assumes everyone is going to upvote etc…
I know some clients show that, but the culture here is generally quite against the concept. Tends to lead to people being scared of going against the majority and creates a hive mind mentality to keep karma high.
Don’t get me started on Karma farming bots. A Karma system does more harm than good.
“☝️🤓 you do not have enough karma to post in this community!” Well what the fuck community am I supposed to post in when all the ones I want to post in won’t let me!?
Reminds me of this.
Hive mind mentality sums up Reddit culture pretty accurately. so happy to be here
Unfortunately you’re not out of the weeds yet. Lemmy has plenty of hive mind mentality
Atleast it’s not rewarding (hypothetically) like Reddit
Definitely, only difference is here you don’t get banned at the speed of light if your opinion doesn’t fit the group.
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Cannot agree more. I say things all the time here that people hate and downvote me for but the numbers are even more useless here than on Reddit so it’s difficult to care.
Imo post/comment scores should be hidden too. I’ve turned them off in my app and it makes for much calmer browsing
You can view your individual comments’ scores, but there is no built in summation across comments you can view.
If you need fake Internet points to motivate you to be a good person then you are probably not a good person.
I’m not saying you specifically OP, but just in general. If karma was the only reason someone was civil on reddit that gives off the same vibes as the people who ask why we aren’t out raping and murdering if we don’t believe in God.
100% agreed. I mostly hate karma because it makes a hive mind mentality since everyone is scared to speak against the norm
