• Sean@lemmy.world
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    Awww, you are not a removed! removed get paid.

    What you are is a karma slut. :P

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    I never got the purpose of karma. You can’t spend it, it’s just a pointless number. A few subs used it, fire whatever reason, as a numbers threshold for entry, but getting karma was so trivially easy even without bots that it literally accomplished nothing in that regard.

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      Not that I ever cared about karma, but I can see why some people did. It plays into peoples need to be liked. Karma associates a number with how well your post is doing. Bigger number = more people liked your post. Basically quantifying how well liked your post is and then gamifying it.

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        Really that stat would have to be something like total karma divided by your number of posts, or number of views by logged in users on your posts. As a total number it’s meaningless. It’s like someone being a millionaire if humans were immortal. Are they really good at business, or have just been alive a long time?

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      Back in 2013-ish there was a bot that would convert your karma to crypto back when it was cheap enough to just throw around like that. That was the only time in my life that I was ever paid to post, and it was like $6. I wonder how much it would be if I were to find that wallet now, but that was on an account that no longer exists. Oh, well!

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      Your brain sees the reward (karma) and gets a hit of dopamine. In theory this creates a spiral of encouraging you to post more contet for more dopamine hits. More content pulls in more users…

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    I got bad news… removed have a lot of sex. And get paid for it.

    I don’t know what you are.

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    For a little I while liked watching my karma gradually climb, with a feeling that I was contributing something. But… then I realised that one shit-post on a popular subreddit can routinely ‘earn’ more karma than 1000 high quality posts on smaller subreddits. … And with that realisation, I no longer saw any value in the karma score whatsoever.

    I think it’s best that it’s gone. It skewed people to make low-effort posts in high-traffic places rather than high-effort posts in low-traffic place.

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      The problem of caring about karma was that after a while it was evident that effort, accuracy, attitude…none of it mattered, atleast for comments. It became mostly really easy to predict how a comment would be received, with a few exceptions from cross post traffic that would shake up the votes in waves as they were posted and down/upvote brigades flooded in.

    • Rengoku@lemmy.world
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      Spamming articles and hope they take off in /r/worldnews is also a thing. I look at ‘new’ tab with disgust. The same pool of redditors!

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    I’m so glad Karma is gone. Just overall dumb. Like a achievement score on Xbox. It’s not real and doesn’t mean anything.

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      How the fuck am I supposed to evaluate my worth as a person without an arbitrary number assigned by internet strangers???

    • Thewheeeeeeeeeel@lemmy.world
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      I wouldnt call it dumb overall. It definitely has good sides.

      For example the karma race aka who posts a news first. That leads to communities being very up to date and discussion can happen very quickly.

      Also it creates some incentive to post good comments, because its fun to know people value your opinion

      But ofc there is also the other side that people post dumb memes and do reposts.

      But acting like it has no worth at all is stupid as well imo

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      At least there’s a rewards system for achievement score. I never got anything for all that sweet karma I got with my massive insights and funny quips.

      That’s why I stopped being insightfully funny.

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      I see your strategy. Double comments to rack up those sweet sweet invisible comment points!

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      Agree that I personally found it a waste of time but I do wonder if having it encourages more people to post good/funny content more regularly. That said surely it’s the same thing really just having it per post rather than an overall score

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    I used to tell myself I didn’t care about karma, but God’s truth is that it made me happy to know that people enjoyed my comments. I did things I’m not proud of for those red arrows.

    Now I don’t want karma back. I’m free of the invisible chains that were weighing me down!

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      I’m confused. I can still see accounts’ “comment” and “post” scores as numbers. Is that essentially different from karma?

      Edit: never mind looks like it’s just wefwef

  • Bad3r@lemmy.one
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    Ngl Reddit naming is much better. Terms like karma and subreddit are goings to be missed.

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      Yeah, “community” is kinda bland.

      And I feel it has the potential to make newbies confused with instance.

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        “Community” is a universal term, where as “subreddit” is a reddit-specific term. It’s a little easier for a newbie to guess what a “community” in lemmy is versus whatever a “subreddit” to reddit is. (Is a subreddit a webpage? Is it the second page of the front page? Is the submarine section of reddit?)

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          In a normal, nonfederated site, sure. But when you throw instances on top of it, it gets a bit more complex.

          On another note, I don’t believe we’re gonna get a lot of people coming here who aren’t redditors.

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        in the old forums you would see both totals and metrics based on things like join data. ex. ppd - posts per day

        The other thing you would have were signatures and account badges/tags/awards.

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            signatures were very dividing, a community usually had them or they didn’t and there were sometimes huge complain threads about them so they kind of just fell out of favor. You can still find places that use them.

            badges reddit adopted and put into the profile page similar to steam which was not a bad idea since people with a lot of badges created new UX issues.

            then you have status flairs and tags, these I really wish had come back, some subs enabled user flair which in some cases replicated the old forum style through CSS mods. Some of the styles you might have might be that your name glowed or had a small animation among other things. I always really liked these though I suspect at scale they have exploitation issues.

            I think some of these features could make a come back on smaller instances. Not sure we should go entirely back to the way it was done in the 00s though.

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        I feel called out. I swear it’s just to engage the community more!!

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    I had a ton of karma points back in the old place. I think they sent me a notice saying I was in the top 5%. Didn’t give a shit. Don’t miss it. Just don’t care at all. Glad to be here with you.

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    Is this one of the endless hints that there is no karma in Lemmy? Have you seen the little up and down arrows under every post and comment? One of my comments recently got forty-five down arrows and I’ll see how many dislikes this comment gets.