0

Should Lemmy have Karma?

posted
by
Avatar
whileloop@lemmy.world
in
Avatar
nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
5 comments
hidereport

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?

Sort:
HotTopControversialNewOld
Avatar
Rhabuko@feddit.de
0 points
*

I think Karma was responsible for people always trying to make a witty comment and made them way to attached to their account. I don’t think that it’s a healthy system an can live good without it.

permalink
report
reply
Avatar
Square Singer@feddit.de
0 points

I don’t want Karma, but I’d really like to get notifications when a post or comment of mine hits certain vote thresholds, e.g. 5/10/50/100/… upvotes/downvotes. I think this would help me get a feel of how my posts are received. Currently, if a post of mine gets 50 upvotes, I most likely won’t ever notice unless I actively monitor all of my posts.

But with the notification I’d get a nice dopamine rush as reward for posting good content ;)

permalink
report
reply
Avatar
Cybermass@lemmy.world
0 points

I think instead of karma we should have an activity and age metric, a badge or something showing how many months/years your account has existed, and an activity metric like posts&comments/day so that it’s easy to tell an old, regularly active account from a young account that is spamming a a bunch of comments per day.

permalink
report
reply
Avatar
Square Singer@feddit.de
0 points

We already have that. Just press a user’s name and then you can see all that.

You, for example, created 3 posts, 31 comments and have been on lemmy for ~2 weeks now.

permalink
report
parent
reply
Avatar
hyazinthe@feddit.de
0 points

If users would vote for constructivity, statistics about votes on the profile may be useful.

permalink
report
reply

No Stupid Questions

!nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

Create post

No such thing. Ask away!

!nostupidquestions is a community dedicated to being helpful and answering each others’ questions on various topics.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)

Rule 1- All posts must be legitimate questions. All post titles must include a question.

All posts must be legitimate questions, and all post titles must include a question. Questions that are joke or trolling questions, memes, song lyrics as title, etc. are not allowed here. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.

Rule 2- Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your question subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.

Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.

Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That’s it.

Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Questions which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.

Rule 6- Regarding META posts and joke questions.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-question posts using the [META] tag on your post title.

On fridays, you are allowed to post meme and troll questions, on the condition that it’s in text format only, and conforms with our other rules. These posts MUST include the [NSQ Friday] tag in their title.

If you post a serious question on friday and are looking only for legitimate answers, then please include the [Serious] tag on your post. Irrelevant replies will then be removed by moderators.

Rule 7- You can't intentionally annoy, mock, or harass other members.

If you intentionally annoy, mock, harass, or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.

Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.
Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.

Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.

Credits

Our breathtaking icon was bestowed upon us by @Cevilia!

The greatest banner of all time: by @TheOneWithTheHair!

Community stats

  • 9.1K

    Monthly active users

  • 1.6K

    Posts

  • 38K

    Comments

Community moderators