Karma in lemmy?
Hi guys just wanted to know if Lemmy has any karma count for people in their profile like Reddit has? If so is it public and How can I access it? Edit: Thanks guys I'm so relieved that this kind of stuff is not prevalent here. I love the Fediverse ❤️
I know some clients show that, but the culture here is generally quite against the concept. Tends to lead to people being scared of going against the majority and creates a hive mind mentality to keep karma high.
Cannot agree more. I say things all the time here that people hate and downvote me for but the numbers are even more useless here than on Reddit so it's difficult to care.
I think it's useful to quickly check if a user is trolling, but you can always just look at their recent activity.
Nope. Post and comment scores are just that - scores. They have zero impact on your account or you standing on your instance. Whether you care about them or not is entirely up to you.
There are exceptions, I think Piefed (see !piefed_meta@piefed.social ) calculates and uses it in a couple ways.
And some communities like !pleasantpolitics@slrpnk.net autoban people with low karma scores I think. Using !santabot@slrpnk.net.
Let's not follow into Reddits footsteps.
AFAIK it used to exist but was removed to avoid recreating stuff like karma farming and minimum karma limits. But it would be pretty easy to make a bash script that manually calculates the karma score
In short... no, Lemmy developers believe the karma mechanics on reddit incentivize bad behavior. (IE making bots or even just yourself re-creating past succesful posts) or just posting the obvious ideas that one assumes everyone is going to upvote etc...
This is what my Mbin instance profile view shows me:
Reputation points: 4116 Moderated: 0
I'm under the impression the reputation points are either the combined number of upvotes or that minus downvotes, but I don't know. Also, this is an Mbin instance but it's fully federated with Lemmy instances so usually no one separates "Lemmy" and "Mbin" ...
I'm under the impression the reputation points are either the combined number of upvotes or that minus downvotes
IIRC from kbin -- and assuming mbin didn't change things -- boosts counted for two points while upvotes (favorites) are one point and downvotes (reduces) are one point. Boosts are basically retweets, IIRC, and wouldn't be coming from lemmy users -- just from Mastodon, mbin, and other tools that support it.
Edit: To clarify, I mean downvotes reduce by one point.
If it is the same as for me it should be the sum of your posts and comments. What and how popular wouldn't matter, just each submission equals one point.
If it is the same as for me it should be the sum of your posts and comments.
Not sure what you mean with "if it is the same as for me", considering you're on Lemmy which doesn't have a feature like this.
But it being the sum of posts and comments is verifiably false. My instance knows of 6 posts and 809 comments of yours. Your home instance reports 17 posts and 2.27k comments. Either way, your karma is 8686, which isn't the sum of either of those.
No that's not it. With the two upvotes I have on the post above that number is now shown as 4118.
If you need fake Internet points to motivate you to be a good person then you are probably not a good person.
I'm not saying you specifically OP, but just in general. If karma was the only reason someone was civil on reddit that gives off the same vibes as the people who ask why we aren't out raping and murdering if we don't believe in God.
100% agreed. I mostly hate karma because it makes a hive mind mentality since everyone is scared to speak against the norm
Note that, at least for people using mbins, _ upvotes are public_ and while downvotes are hidden (Which is weird IMO), instance admins, and people who know how to use lemmy's software API, can access them.
There is no karma counter builtin, but it is also not something hard to implement. But I remember an chromium/firefox extension displaying it. "Karma" in Lemmy can be calculated manually though.
Imo post/comment scores should be hidden too. I've turned them off in my app and it makes for much calmer browsing
You can view your individual comments' scores, but there is no built in summation across comments you can view.
There is ni such thing on Lemmy unfortunatly, there is on PieFed..
It encourages shitposting, high karma almost always was related to memes, not being helpful
As a recovering karma whore, I can attest to this.
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