Has anybody else experienced this? Ever since Lemmy was upgraded to 0.19, all of my sweet internet points are gone. I know you're not supposed to care about that, nevertheless am I the only one?!
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Yeah, it's really good. Karma is incentive to do stupid stuff like karma farming bots that just spam old top posts over and over etc..
Karma was also a really handy tool for mods to keep away bots and trolls.
Is it really, though? Even if karma wasn't ridiculously easy to get in the first place, Reddit has karma sharing communities for the sole purpose of users and bots upvoting each other to get around karma restrictions.
Yes, it really was. It wasn't perfect for the reasons you describe, but it certainly was a useful extra tool.
When mod tools are available, I believe that problem will be solved as well.
First, I doubt that. Even with all the tooling available for mods on Reddit, being able to access a user's overall karma or subreddit karma was really useful for moderating. Including the tools accessing that karma count.
But secondly, and perhaps more importantly, even if that weren't true, and future mod tooling for Lemmy was going to magically solve the problem, removing that tool now is pretty poor. Better to leave it and remove it only once it is no longer necessary.
Yeah, you do have a point there.