YSK: Lemmy DOES have a karma system

You Should Know@lemmy.world – 747 points – 12 months ago

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.

https://join-lemmy.org/api/interfaces/PersonAggregates.html

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Thanks, I hate it. Promotes gamesmanship and super douches like Gallowboob.

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.

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.

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, 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..