No.
Can’t wait for Lemmy to take off and then have people forever being “ omg I was here before the Reddit lot hipsters” but they got here 10 mins ago like me.
But… But you posted this 32 minutes ago… I’m confused.
Time travel is possible if you only believe
Personally, I like “points.” It makes it like a game. I want the high score.
I like seeing the points on individual comments and posts. I don’t really care about my account total.
I liked seeing someone’s comment karma. Are they a troll? Are they a farmer? Are they trying to have a legitimate conversation? It helps end pointless conversations quickly.
But I don’t think it’s necessary.
I’m sorry to anyone that needs internet points to feel good
I feel good about my StackOverflow points… but the Karma from Reddit means nothing to me.
StackOverflow points are actually useful, you can post your profile in your resume, it’s a talking point for an interview. Reddit karma is just an epeen measuring contest.
Karma is the most stripper name I’ve ever heard.
Someone’s gonna have an unexpected pornstar find tonight. Just dare to type RX after it.
It’s my karma and I want it now!
On Reddit I deleted and burned my account yearly. Still debating wether I should to it on Lemmy and Kbin. We’ll see
Updoots to the left…
Former redditor here. Never gave a crap about karma. Just here to laugh at funny Internet things.
Nah keep that thing outta here
If people really want karma, they can write a 3rd party app to total their comments and posts scores. This isn’t reddit.
Why do they even want karma? So they can monetize bots with high karma and plague the place with automated content? Screw that.
I hope that this will never be a thing lol. Most annoying “feature” of reddit
Do not make it so
I don’t care about karma. I just want to be notified when someone responds to my comments so that I can have an actual conversation.
Karma wouldn’t work on Lemmy. I could just make an instance and run a script to give myself as much upvotes as I wanted.
Well it was technically the same on reddit. Didn’t work there too
I imagine you could have some sort of distributed karma system — e.g., each instance has its own notion of your karma. Calculating karma would then involve querying all federated instances and summing up the value. So now you’d need two instances, both federated with others, in order to karma hack. Not impossible, but more annoying. Alternately, you could only sum up the karma on particular instances, rather than all federated instances.
You just know some nerds would fucking love finding karma exchange rates and keeping tables. The same people who play eve in excel
you can play eve in excel!?
Can you not?
