I am curious to hear opinions on the concept of user karma in general.

Do people miss it?
Are we better off without it?

From a technicial perspective, I don’t see why it couldn’t be implemented. I understand Lemmy doesn’t track this explicitly. However, using a users post and comment history you could come to a number pretty easily, right? I was considering making a toy app that would take a user and instance and spit out a karma score for post and comments, what would stop others from doing the same?

Will it be inevitably pulled into existence by Lemmy users as we mature the platform?

  • I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    IIRC, boosts increase it and downvotes decrease it. Last time I checked I was minus 5. Thus I think of it as a QI score.

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      1 year ago

      That’s a poor way to measure karma since people downvote significantly more liberally than they boost, and boosting isn’t a thing on lemmy.

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        1 year ago

        It does make a positive score far more meaningful, given that no only does someone have to post quotable content, but it’s also really easy to lose.

        I think it might be too skewed to the negative this way, though. I’d support it if boosts were positive but there either was no negative, or the negative score was tied to the number of people who have blocked you, somehow.