All comment karma tells you is who was first to a thread basically in my experience, and I had over 500k of it lol it’s nothing though I could go troll for days before making a dent in the 10k you get from an obvious joke on the new tab and then the thread takes off
Best way to tell if someone is a troll is just to look at what they say imo 🤷🏻♂️
I had my third party app and browser extensions set to automatically hide comments by people with very low karma and very low comment scores. I’d only ever see hateful comments if I clicked to unhide them and I liked that
I agree. People will farm upvotes so I’m fine not having that, but having downvotes visible is an absolute must. It keeps racists, trolls, conspiracy nuts, misinformation, transphobes, and generally most hateful content out of view of those it would affect
If we look at how YouTube comments are where the likes and dislikes mean nothing, it’s filled with the most hateful shit that’s still within guidelines
Negative karma doesn’t necessarily indicate a troll, any unpopular opinion can get down-voted to hell while similar but differently expressed ideas get up-voted in the same thread. I’m not against karma system though, just think it’s quite useless in most cases.
I’ll dissent. I like the karma system. It gives me a quick read out of who’s a troll and who isn’t.
I don’t care about post karma so much, but the comment karma was an interesting stat.
Edit: An important caveat. We MUST keep downvotes visible. MUST. Having just a positive score breeds absolute insanity.
All comment karma tells you is who was first to a thread basically in my experience, and I had over 500k of it lol it’s nothing though I could go troll for days before making a dent in the 10k you get from an obvious joke on the new tab and then the thread takes off
Best way to tell if someone is a troll is just to look at what they say imo 🤷🏻♂️
I had my third party app and browser extensions set to automatically hide comments by people with very low karma and very low comment scores. I’d only ever see hateful comments if I clicked to unhide them and I liked that
I agree. People will farm upvotes so I’m fine not having that, but having downvotes visible is an absolute must. It keeps racists, trolls, conspiracy nuts, misinformation, transphobes, and generally most hateful content out of view of those it would affect
If we look at how YouTube comments are where the likes and dislikes mean nothing, it’s filled with the most hateful shit that’s still within guidelines
You forgot about the baby eaters in your list of people you dislike.
do you disagree that the people in my list are inherently bad or something? the people I listed are harmful to everyone. not just “people I dislike”
I find it funny you had a list instead of just saying harmful people. It was a joke.
Negative karma doesn’t necessarily indicate a troll, any unpopular opinion can get down-voted to hell while similar but differently expressed ideas get up-voted in the same thread. I’m not against karma system though, just think it’s quite useless in most cases.