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Lemmy should just go its own way and forget about cake day and karma farming, and instead reward original content, until reddit starts copying Lemmy

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LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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It exists, your total just isn’t visible to anyone but admins.

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originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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its completely public via non-lemmy systems https://moist.catsweat.com/u/@LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net

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Valmond@lemmy.world
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Isn’t it worthless though? I mean I could award myself karma on my servers communities or just hack it up.

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originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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no. Its great for catching trolls.

it literally hurts no one for existing

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LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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Interesting. Your instance is from another platform, right? Is it Piefed or mbin?

Is this just basically karma or what does it mean?

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originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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yep, im coming from an mbin instance. its basically karma… upvotes - downvotes.

it really helps identifying spammers/trolls quickly.

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kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
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Users’ aggregate post and comment score has been entirely removed from the Lemmy API (as of version 0.19.0 if I remember correctly). It is not easily accessible to anyone, including admins. You could write a script to sum a user’s aggregate score.

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henfredemars@infosec.pub
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This pleases me greatly. This is the ethos.

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LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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Oh I guess I missed that update. Thanks for the correction.

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dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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Well, in that your upvote total and ratio can be calculated, at least. Does it actually do anything, or can it do anything, like it did on reddit? Subs having minimum karma thresholds, that sort of thing? If not, it’s truly meaningless and can be safely ignored by everyone.

That’s what I do.

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