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What is your opinion about Lemmy not having karma but Kbin having reputation points? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year 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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[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Reddit karma is a self-perpetuating problem. Karma being used as an indicator of an account's quality and trustworthiness incentivizes karma farming, effectively turning fake internet points into real money. This spurs the development of bots whose sole purpose is to farm karma by reposting old content from humans (and more recently using ChatGPT to generate comments) which then spurs the rise of human "bot hunter" accounts whose sole purpose is to detect and report bots "stealing" content. At some point reddit turns into bots acting like humans vs humans acting like bots.

[–] LimitedBrain@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I really wish the karma didn't come with the downsides of bots. I wouldn't be opposed to a system like the one reddit had with awards where the instances can take a cut of the award purchases. It's nice to have a way to promote good OC on a platform and it solves a lot of what I don't like about the karma.