maybe when you donate to your instance, you can get some, or when you have x amount of upvotes, or when you have cake day (whe call it like that, right?)

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[–] fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

sure, but i liked that awarded comments got highlighted. and they even added another layer of funny sometimes.

and i thought they might encourage people to be more active. but yeah, my upvote proposel doesn't seem to be very smart as @owenfromcanada@lemmy.world pointed out.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hmmh. I believe the main reason why we don't have them is that the main developers didn't like gamification. So they skipped all of that. And they don't view this platform as a 1:1 clone of Reddit. And I mean ultimately all these awards and similar concepts on Discord etc are meant to make the users spend money. Other things are made to get people hooked, because they can brag with karma, awards etc and they'll spend more time on the platform. That's all good if you're trying to make lots of money, but not necessarily healthy for the users or the atmosphere on the platform. But it's complicated. Not everything is bad, either.

I'd like emoji reactions for example. That'd be practically the same thing... You could - instead of just up-/downvote, add a picture reaction to a comment or post - could be a medal or whatever. Some other Fediverse platforms have that kind of stuff.

(And btw: Lots of people here also donate time to moderate, foster communities, write program code, donate to the project, or are just particularly nice to people, so it needs to factor in lots of other things as well, next to money donations to the instance admins.)