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?

  • Cybermass@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I think instead of karma we should have an activity and age metric, a badge or something showing how many months/years your account has existed, and an activity metric like posts&comments/day so that it’s easy to tell an old, regularly active account from a young account that is spamming a a bunch of comments per day.

    • Square Singer@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      We already have that. Just press a user’s name and then you can see all that.

      You, for example, created 3 posts, 31 comments and have been on lemmy for ~2 weeks now.