On Reddit, my karma was always weighted more on the question side than on the comment side. I felt bad for not being a valuable contributor to people’s lives rather than being selfish and always asking things for myself. Lemmy has gotten rid of that point system so now I feel like I can feel free to ask as many questions as I need without having to balance my karma. Also, I have noticed that I participate so much more on this platform than I ever did on Reddit.
It’s surprising how much just keeping track can mess with behavior, eh?
(edit: I don’t know why it wasn’t loading, have now uploaded directly to lemmy)
I suppose so.
It’s the main reason why Reddit was a giant circle jerk. I like here that you can upvote and downvote things but it’s not connected to your account at all. Just connected to the comment or post, as it should be.
I didn’t notice this until you mentioned it. I really like that. Hopefully it stays that way.
I rarely up/down voted stuff on Reddit, because I didn’t want to feed the algorithm and have them do whatever it is they were going to do with that data tied to me.
Well said.
In your own personal opinion, what’s the motivation for keeping an eye on karma? How would the experience change if you didn’t have the possibility of racking up points/karma at all?
My sense of community involvement depended on my karma count. I didn’t want to be perceived as a person consistently asking for answers rather than contributing them. I guess without karma that preoccupation goes away.
This is tracked btw its just that your instance of Lemmy is deciding not to display it. You have 1512 reputation.
How do I make that public?
Asking questions is valuable to an online community though. People need to ask questions so that others can answer, and plenty of them (often myself included) won’t post questions they have and will just search around hoping someone else already did.
hate to break it to you but you have 1512 reputation points
Is that good or bad?
idk it was more karma than I ever had. always toiling away in the comments of less popular subreddits.
Currently I have 1737 rep points. It says I joined a month ago and you joined 3 weeks ago so I think you are beating me by a bit. I guess your strategy is working! :D
What strategy? lol
Trying to contribute more
