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What is your opinion about Lemmy not having karma but Kbin having reputation points? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by gylotip@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Personally, I prefer Lemmy over Kbin because I hate karma and reputation points. I do not want to worry about downvotes, and Lemmy feels so fresh. I can post things that will receive lots of downvotes and not need to worry about losing karma.

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[โ€“] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Technically, lemmy does actually track a user's karma.

It's- just not exposed via the user interface... as of right now.

Kinda of like how kbin displays who upvotes and downvotes. Lemmy also tracks this data too, and can easily report on exactly who is upvoting and downvoting.

In the case of this post, for example-

[โ€“] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In the case of karma- Its all there too.

Comment Karma

Comment Negative Karma.

And- post karma exists too.

[โ€“] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Oh dear. I am disappointed to see that. I can understand the point of scoring posts and comments, but what's the point of keeping a score for the user? Is there a use for it now, or is it being kept just in case there's a use for it later?

Hopefully it will not get exposed in the UI.

[โ€“] communist@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago

It's necessary because the website is transparent, if you were to federate with an instance, you'd need this information in order to moderate your instance, in order to check for bots, and various other things, that's the only reason it exists.

[โ€“] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

For votes to work, the data of who voted where has to be tracked.

Karma is just a matter of adding numbers together.

I think the data can be useful for anti spam reasons

[โ€“] QuestionMark@vlemmy.net 1 points 2 years ago

How are you supposed to comment or post to earn Karma if you're blocked because of having low Karma?! It is also bad for new users.

[โ€“] gylotip@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am disappointed by this. Karma ruins whole discussions, and I hope the devs never add something bloody dreadful like that.

[โ€“] communist@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

It's necessary because the website is transparent, if you were to federate with an instance, you'd need this information in order to moderate your instance, in order to check for bots, and various other things, that's the only reason it exists.