Hey! Thanks to the whole Reddit mess, I’ve discovered the fediverse and its increidible wonders and I’m lovin’ it :D
I’ve seen another post about karma, and after reading the comments, I can see there is a strong opinion against it (which I do share). I’d love to hear your opinions, what other method/s would you guys implement? If any ofc
There is that aspect of karma of “if you’ve got negative karma, you’re probably intolerable” but I’m not sure how much that helps in practice vs just banning people. Karma can also filter out fresh accounts for high spam communities, ofc, that doesn’t work perfectly either…
Karma farming has always been one of the worst aspects of the other place. Repost bots will sustain them long after the humans are all gone.
Throwaways are still an issue with banning.
Some kind of participation based scoring would just bring us back to farming and alienates lurkers.
Account age is unreliable.
Hmm… I hate leaving the burden on mods but karma has too many negatives.
It is doable for the mods when the community has 100 members, after that, it gets hard for the poor mods ;(
“Karma Farming” is only an issue to people who place excessive value on karma. For the rest of us, people posting content that people like is not a problem, it’s in fact the goal of the entire website.
“I’ve already seen this!! Why is it being reposted!” is such a selfish perspective, not everyone stalks these websites and every time it’s posted it reaches a new audience, why does it upset you that people like seeing these things?
Person could still be banned if cumulative score is too low - it just has to be hidden. Second problem can be solved in the way forums did it in the past: user can be marked as newbie if his cumulative score is low (i.e. < 100 or something). These problems do not require visible karma system to be fixed
This wouldn’t work in the fediverse anyway, as it’d even easier to fake your user karma here (on an own instance).