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[-] ericisshort@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I mean, it kind of does mean something small, which is credibility. Karma wasn’t ever a flawless way to determine credibility, but it was a decent first pass, like an online ocular patdown.

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Uh, no. Lol

It maybe showed popularity. But it was frequently manipulated.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Example: replace this entire comment with a portion of a highly upvoted comment below from this same thread, combine that with an official experience that only shows one or two top level comments and those copies can also get lots of upvotes. Reddit was rife with these kinds of bots.

[-] DarkMatter_contract@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

In ideal situation downvote should not be used for disagreeing but topic relevant and quality. In ideal situation…

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Bro I've never for a second thought that gallowboob had any credibility whatsoever and the motherfucker had like, all the KARMA

[-] ericisshort@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

You’re completely missing my point. I’m not saying you should worship the guy, but he has more credibility than a troll with negative karma or a 3 month old tshirt bot with a few hundred karma from plagiarized comments.

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Both those cases have 0 credibility from any sensible person as they are functionally equivalent

[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Hi I'm necrocommenting this old comment, sorry.

You're conflating post karma and comment karma. Post karma is shit and almost everyone on reddit with super high post karma is awful. Comment karma however is often a decent measure of credibility. The problem is people conflate the two, or worse, inappropriately value post karma over comment karma.

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