What is your opinion about Lemmy not having karma but Kbin having reputation points? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by gylotip@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Personally, I prefer Lemmy over Kbin because I hate karma and reputation points. I do not want to worry about downvotes, and Lemmy feels so fresh. I can post things that will receive lots of downvotes and not need to worry about losing karma.

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[-] coldhotman@nrsk.no 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[-] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 0 points 1 year ago

Technically, lemmy does actually track a user's karma.

It's- just not exposed via the user interface... as of right now.

Kinda of like how kbin displays who upvotes and downvotes. Lemmy also tracks this data too, and can easily report on exactly who is upvoting and downvoting.

In the case of this post, for example-

[-] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 0 points 1 year ago

In the case of karma- Its all there too.

Comment Karma

Comment Negative Karma.

And- post karma exists too.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh dear. I am disappointed to see that. I can understand the point of scoring posts and comments, but what's the point of keeping a score for the user? Is there a use for it now, or is it being kept just in case there's a use for it later?

Hopefully it will not get exposed in the UI.

[-] communist@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

It's necessary because the website is transparent, if you were to federate with an instance, you'd need this information in order to moderate your instance, in order to check for bots, and various other things, that's the only reason it exists.

[-] razorwiregoatlick@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Just like on Reddit, I don’t care. As long as it’s not tied to my ability to interact with the community then let them have their silly internet points.

[-] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

One annoying thing on some subreddits was moderators auto-removing your posts unless you had a certain amount of karma.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

The throttles are really useful. But I agree on the first post and the removals.

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