There is a score kept in the backend, it just has no frontend in default lemmy and only exists if instance devs want to do something custom with it. Some apps are probably using it.
So essentially karma that hasn’t been weighted & calculated (you receive more karma if your post / comment skyrockets early on if I’m not mistaken) and that isn’t (yet) used as a gate for posting in communities
There are a lot more ways for community marshalls to gate posting in communities when they’re running it properly as opposed to over on reddit where us moderators are fairly limited in the actions we can take. Using karma as a gate will also be somewhat ineffective as instance owners will exist that simply create karma for people.
It’s also a fairly unpleasant thing to begin with. Coming from a bunch of bazinga techbro libertarians turning all discussion into a “market”. If you accept that gameification isn’t going away there’s still a good amount of research showing downvotes only hurt platforms and discussion rather than improve it.
There is a score kept in the backend, it just has no frontend in default lemmy and only exists if instance devs want to do something custom with it. Some apps are probably using it.
So essentially karma that hasn’t been weighted & calculated (you receive more karma if your post / comment skyrockets early on if I’m not mistaken) and that isn’t (yet) used as a gate for posting in communities
There are a lot more ways for community marshalls to gate posting in communities when they’re running it properly as opposed to over on reddit where us moderators are fairly limited in the actions we can take. Using karma as a gate will also be somewhat ineffective as instance owners will exist that simply create karma for people.
It’s also a fairly unpleasant thing to begin with. Coming from a bunch of bazinga techbro libertarians turning all discussion into a “market”. If you accept that gameification isn’t going away there’s still a good amount of research showing downvotes only hurt platforms and discussion rather than improve it.
Yep, The Memmy IOS app has a lot of details on the profile page