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What is your opinion about Lemmy not having karma but Kbin having reputation points? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by gylotip@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Personally, I prefer Lemmy over Kbin because I hate karma and reputation points. I do not want to worry about downvotes, and Lemmy feels so fresh. I can post things that will receive lots of downvotes and not need to worry about losing karma.

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[–] Skelectus@suppo.fi 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A karma score encourages making poor quality meme posts and comments in large quantities to gain more fake internet points. It's easily abused; Reddit is full of karma farming bots.

No downvotes was also mentioned here, but I heavily disagree. Downvotes, in my opinion are mostly a positive thing. Youtube hiding downvotes was a move towards a "good vibes only, no criticism allowed" type of environment.

Lemmy pretty much meets my ideal in this regard, it has downvotes and doesn't have a broken social credit system.

[–] assa123@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are posts that contain despicable information/news but are useful to know, and I always struggled between upvoting or not voting since downvoting would remove karma from OP.

[–] Skelectus@suppo.fi 5 points 1 year ago

Downvotes aren't intended for the subject of the news, but for OP for making the post. If you hate the subject, I guess the correct action is to express it in the comments, or give an upvote if someone else already did.

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was an idea from blahaj.zone who considered making down votes enabled, but have less "weight" compared to upvotes. It sounded pretty interesting but I don't think they implemented it yet.

[–] Skelectus@suppo.fi 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Could you link that? I don't see an obvious benefit, but it sounds interesting.

[–] Firefly7@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/104422