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?

  • Square Singer@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    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 ;)