There’s some misinformation floating around regarding Lemmy not having a karma system. While many have discovered otherwise, this is for those who may not have.
While it’s not exposed in the Lemmy default user interface, Lemmy does have a fully functional karma system and it is visible in third party clients such as WefWef and Memmy.
Do with that what you will.
In Lemmy, karma is not important.
Alignment, however, is paramount.
Mine seems to be chaotic ADHD asshole. Wait, is this even a proper alignment?!
Karma on Lemmy has zero value, because you can easily manipulate the numbers.
Unlike Reddit?
Can you spin up your own Reddit instance and give yourself ♾-1 karma?
i’m personally going to shoot for NaN karma, maybe null if i’m feeling spicy.
Do these apps have desktop plugin equivalents?
Honestly should be removed
I don’t think there is a way to remove that. “Karma” is just the sum of upvotes on all of a users’ posts/comments and that info is always accessible.
We could make the decision to not show that value in the front-ends of course but you’ll likely have very different opinions on that and some front-ends will inevitably show karma.
But if it wasn’t available in the API then apps would have to do a fetch of all the users posts to calculate it, possibly discouraging it.
I’m a karma whore, and I love this
I bet you made this comment just to receive more upvotes.
You sir have deciphered my life purpose
Karma is about which faction will turn hostile to you.
Tell me more, so I can love you or hate you.
Unlike other Bethesda games, In Fallout New Vegas there’s a karma system that tracks your reputation among various factions, you can help and have good karma with one group of people and consequently worsen your reputation among other opposing factions.
New Vegas isn’t a Bethesda game.
Dang, should this be a feature in lemmy now? Can there be a breakdown on which communities your karma comes from?
Thanks, I hate it. Promotes gamesmanship and super douches like Gallowboob.
But it also encourages people to generate content. It’s a slippery slope.
What kind of content though? I’d rather have a few good posts a day than all that karma-whoring.
What is karma removed?
All kinds of content. There’s a difference between generating content and karma whoring.
Yeah if people start going for Karma we’ll be plagued by “this” and stupid puns. Yesterday I saw a reddit post where the guy misspelled WiFi as Wife when explaining his problem, and then the top 10 comments were “omg dude you can’t just get a new wife” or “I wouldn’t come to Reddit for a problem with my wife”
The actual solutions to the problem were rubbish too
Yup, there’s a lot of hurrrr hurrrr hurrr stuff on reddit. Which isn’t inherently bad…but they often just keep pushing it ad nauseum. There’s no such concept as “OK, enough already” on there.
A bit of humour is fine, but when it drowns out the actual information it’s frustrating.
At the same time it’s shows who you should block. I don’t always remember usernames but I had the top posters like that blocked. Made reddit so much better to use.
Yeah, that is basically what the Karma System was for.
Yeah, I blocked gallowboob years ago, I was just wondering if he left during the reddit exodus or if he’s still there, posting 80% of the front page content. Not gonna go check though…
Was he the bird guy?
That was Unidan. Gallowboob was just a repost karma farmer.
Have an upvote, so as to better game the system stranger.
I am extremely disappointed by this.
I thought we were free of such toxicity here.
Not like forums without karma aren’t toxic. I think karma has merits. The motivation of people to get the number go up can be both good and bad.
My points have reset a couple times over the last couple weeks, so they don’t mean much.
Apparently “something” goofed things up with regards to the tallies with the 18.1 updates. Noticed a script that reconciled things published to Lemmy Support this morning for a short-term fix. Whether there will be a great reconciliation baked in to the system or not, in the future, remains to be seen.
I don’t really care. My primary account was on vlemmy, but that seems to be dead now.
Mine (on both 3rd party apps) are very inaccurate lol. I have a post with over 2k and it says my karma is 300
Apparently something in the 18.1 upgrades made a mess of it. I noticed someone providing a script to fix up the databases this morning
That’s a nice query!
Awesome, thanks for the news! Hopefully it’ll be fixed in the next update/by my instance admin
Ohhh that’s too bad! Isn’t it?
/sI can only speculate, but the number may relate to when the number was fetched or the numbers from a single instance. I know the instances are independent, but rely on a number of bot like “helpers” to pass information between federated instances. I saw an issue come up when .world was scaling and the conversation went into the need to allocate more of these “helpers.” The way the instance is configured to update these stats probably has an impact on what you see in an app.
I went the other way and configured Liftoff to not show scores anywhere. And to be honest my experience is all the better for it.
What Lemmy does with that score is ultimately instance-specific. Over time I expect we’ll see more differentiation between instances in terms of how they treat things like that.
I know my comic praising lemmy for no karma added to the confusion on this but I do appreciate that lemmy.world does not feature the server karma on profiles for reasons already said in the comments. Thanks for clarifying.
Karma farm again?
You just wanted to show off your post score, didn’t you?
