• AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    You’re going to get a lot of agreement here: Lemmy decided not to implement it for users. We still use votes on posts and comments, and you can sort by them, but no one gets scored by his many they have, and I think that’s a good thing. Lots of folks on Reddit modify their behavior specifically to generate karma, and often not in good ways.

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      3 months ago

      This isn’t universal, and any client can implement it if they really wanted to.

      The one good thing about karma was the ability to quickly tell who was likely around just to fuck with people. If you peek at their profile and see -100 karma, you know they are just a troll and can be ignored.

      Other than that, yeah the system was pointless beyond “look at me my number is bigger”

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        3 months ago

        It was also annoying how much it drove some people to make one line jokes or recycled copypasta in every single thread, looking for the quick upvotes. It made some threads unreadable.