How do we get power users if no imaginary win points?
Well hello there, world!
It’s ok, we already knew this
almost all of us I think… Reddit used to be a good place
almost all of us I think… Reddit used to be a good place
God bless you, you were a good hoor
almost all of us I think… Reddit used to be a good place
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.
It’s not real and doesn’t mean anything.
B-b-b-but! My e-peen! How else are people going to know that I did stuff?
This reminds me of the early '00s forums signature banners. Can we bring those back cuz they were sick
I don’t see why not.
You can make your profile snazzy tho.
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
I see your strategy. Double comments to rack up those sweet sweet invisible comment points!
God damn it lol
How the fuck am I supposed to evaluate my worth as a person without an arbitrary number assigned by internet strangers???
Are you telling me that the race for the first to 100 million achievement score means nothing??!1?2!?
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.
I couldn’t find a link to sell. I wonder if they’re not buying anymore or I’m just blind.
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
You do house calls?
Show me your butthole!
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.
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…
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!
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.
Removed by mod
How well liked something is sadly doesn’t necessarily correlate with its truth.
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?
It’s a game. “Numbers go up yay!”
Bow chica wow wow.
Ngl Reddit naming is much better. Terms like karma and subreddit are goings to be missed.
I don’t miss Reddit or it’s terms, actually I never even knew exactly what karma was and neither did I care
Yeah, “community” is kinda bland.
And I feel it has the potential to make newbies confused with instance.
“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?)
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.
B-but
sublemmy…
Unintentionally naughty sounding
I’m kinda glad that not a thing anymore.
We need c/forevergroup and c/100yearassociation here.
