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[โ€“] [email protected] 167 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'd say people worrying about Karma.

[โ€“] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was going to post that you're lucky you included the /s, but I just realized we don't have karma so it doesn't matter anyways. Such a nice feeling...

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Fuck that /s If you're unable to grasp context without it then just move on to a different discussion.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Even the /s I wouldn't bring it here

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

karma (or upvotes-downvotes aka simple karma) shouldn't be a reason to disallow someone from using a lemmy community

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I don't know what form of karma Wander meant, but for me the "global karma" numbers are the worst part of reddit. People constantly posting stupid things or self-censoring to try to make number go up.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Requiring minimum positive karma is stupid when it can be gamed so easily.

Someone with very negative karma is likely a troll.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

upvoted to give you more karma

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What exactly was the karma problem? I never saw it being a huge issue

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It becomes an issue if you imagine people on social media do what they do for karma in the same way people in real life do what they do for money.

In other words, if you have a deficient or extremely narrow theory of mind, you will think karna is the cause of everything

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there even a total karma counter anywhere at all?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not on Lemmy but there is on kbin (it's called "reputation", I think). I'm hoping it doesn't get implemented here, but I guess we can see if it negatively affects kbin content as we've got a direct comparison.