Should Lemmy have Karma?

whileloop@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 43 points –

Another Reddit refugee here,

I think we're all familiar with the Karma system on Reddit. Do you think Lemmy should have something similar? Because I can see cases for and against it.

For: a way to tracking quality contributions by a user, quantifying reputation. Useful to keep new accounts from spamming communities.

Against: Often not a useful metric, can be botted or otherwise unearned (see u/spez), maybe we should have something else?

What do you all think?

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I am personally indifferent. Never really cared on all my accounts on Reddit.

I'll admit that I had a bit of pride in my 550k+ karma on my main reddit account, but I'm quite open to sacrificing this for less toxicity.

Why were you pride about it if you allow me to ask.

No OP but number goes up equals dopamine rush. Same reason I played RuneScape for so long.

It was proof that people liked what I had to say, and that I'd been funny and interesting for at least twelve years running.