Unfortunately the redditors have brought their unfunny memes to lemmy. Hopefully they will stop this when the see that karmawhoring is pointless here.
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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Or were all just enjoying it and you're the one trying to be a party pooper
Or were all just enjoying it and you're the one trying to be a party pooper
It's about tying self esteem to upvotes, why in the world would it be pointless here?
It's pointless because there is no karma system on lemmy and therefore no karma requirement to post on certain communities. Aqcuiring upvotes on multiple posts does nothing in the long term. My thinking was that a system like this might end up leading people to place quality over quantity when making posts.
It's super easy to say "Trumps sucks!" on the news subreddit, get thousands of upvotes. Some people would post on gardening with a picture of a black gardener and get 10k upvotes, there's a whole list of ways to start a new account on top in no times. It's how bots work
That's unfortunate, at least we still have smaller instances. Things seem to be better there.
Well karma is just called "points" here, I don't think that's enough of a difference
As far as I can tell, there isn't a place where the total number of points that you have as a user is displayed. This takes some value away from simply mindlessly pursuing points as points would be attributed more to the individual post rather than the user.
Many apps display them as "comment score" and "post score". And the Lemmy API let's you request that data, so it's stored.
I didn't know that so thanks for telling me. I'm still gonna keep posting like there isn't a score count though because it means that I am more free to say what I want.
That's the way to go, the number doesn't matter at all.