I didn’t hate the system but how it encouraged mindless reposting. I kinda liked seeing big number go up, yanno? Kinda miss that but also glad that we don’t have it here.

I think that karma is an extremely poorly thought system, because it worsens every single issue with content voting system, such as:

• fluff principle - content that is the easiest to judge takes over, unless you take specific measures to prevent it
• subjectivity - what’s “good” for a user might be rubbish for another, and vice versa, so the content surfacing will be the lowest common denominator
• undue reposting - since content already highly upvoted will be likely highly upvoted in the future
• demographic concentration - people hang around larger communities because they post more in those, since those will yield more upvotes
• hivemind - more popular opinions are made even more visible than less popular ones, discouraging people from speaking their minds; etc.

because, even if the karma score means jack shit, people will feel encouraged to hoard karma instead of posting what would be more to the spirit of the relevant communities that they participate on.

Another issue of a karma system is that it enables that idiotic mod practice of gatekeeping communities behind karma points. I could go on a full rant about this, but let me not.

Do you mean the concept of up- / downvoting posts and comments in order to determine a suitable order, or do you mean the tally of all your up- / downvotes being displayed as a number on your profile.

As for the up- / downvoting, while it isn’t perfect, and it sometimes encourages people to only upvote things they agree with rather than being accurate, it is a pretty good metric to get relevant posts and comments to the top.

And as for the numerical tally… It’s easily ignored. I didn’t particularly mind it on Reddit, but I also don’t mind its absence on Lemmy.
Seeing the number go up on my individual posts gives my monkey brain enough of a dopamine boost

You’re going to get a lot of agreement here: Lemmy decided not to implement it for users. We still use votes on posts and comments, and you can sort by them, but no one gets scored by his many they have, and I think that’s a good thing. Lots of folks on Reddit modify their behavior specifically to generate karma, and often not in good ways.

I just liked gaming the system. And I bet so did a lot of others, which I think was part of the problem.

After getting piled on when trying to have sincere conversations (on things that weren’t even controversial) I just made reddit accounts for trolling and mocking reddit users. Pandering and satirizing. And for yelling at clouds and shitting on others.

Overall, shitty system that encourages shitty behavior.

How do you mean?

Do people actually look at a person’s Karma? I just see up/downvotes on stuff.

I enjoyed the concept, but then it turned into just reposting and trash posts for karma mining. then I switched to Lemmy and ditched Reddit completely and no longer care about anything Reddit does

I earned 70$ when Reddit experimented paying users for each upvote in r/cc. But it wasn’t worth it and it ruined the sub

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