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?
I think Karma was responsible for people always trying to make a witty comment and made them way to attached to their account. I don’t think that it’s a healthy system an can live good without it.
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 ;)
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.
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.
If users would vote for constructivity, statistics about votes on the profile may be useful.
