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what feature that if was on lemmy, it would ruin it?? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 days ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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i think one of them is: karma

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[–] 2 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Why do you think so? I don’t believe it has such an impact. Karma is nice for some people because of whatever reasons they have and everyone else just don’t care about it.

Only impact I can see is communities requiring Karma to post. But that shouldn’t be too much of an issue for most users.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    well because of farmming

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

    Karma systems invalidate someone's way of thinking. You may not realize how much people will say or do anything to feel better about themselves seeing a stupid number go up. And the more meaningless points that a user has, they get a god complex by thinking they can say or do no wrong.

    A lot of the people I've confronted on this platform and in the past, are assholes with lots of points.

    I don't see the point in karma systems at all. It isn't about making posts the most seen. It's about people chasing validity.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    As long as the karma isn’t linked to any decision making power, how would it influence me if someone feels like a god and becomes an asshole? Assholes are everywhere with and without karma. And being an asshole with lots of karma fast leads to losing all of it again through downvotes.

    I couldn’t care less about karma, but if it makes someone happy or more attached to use PieFed/Lemmy, go for it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (3 children)

    Cool, cool.

    Enough people do care and attribute value that it leads to negative outcomes. On reddit having higher karma numbers was treated as a user being 'worth more' for decisions. After a decade or so not having karma on a new account led to negative experience for new users by being gated out of popular communities until they farmed some karma.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Yeah, but you didn’t answered my question. How would it affect me without being linked to such restrictions?

    However, I can see a point communities trying to set a low limit to decrease spamming a little bit. And I also can see communities that would like to have people involved in comments first before they are allowed to post. Sure, most communities don’t need such a rule, but (community-based) karma could be a way to make something like that easily achievable.

    The good part compared to Reddit is: in Fediverse its way easier to copy a popular community. CommunityXY@piefed.world requires Karma now to post and you don’t like this rule? Start communityXY@piefed.zip without that rule and let the people decide what they prefer.

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