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[–] Difficult_Bit_1339@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's got to be karma in here somewhere!

[–] Quills@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It actually seems to be calculated internally but only the instance host can see it, i think it is there to help with moderation or some other technical reason

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Interestingly, the internally calculated value (which can be fetched using the API) differs quite a lot from the actual value that you get when you sum up the scores of all posts and comments. For example, my comment score is ~20x as high as what the API reports.

I made a tampermonkey script that calculates and displays your "karma" next to your username: https://feddit.de/post/1185964

(It only works for your own karma, doesn't show anyone else's karma, and it also only shows it to you. So no karma farming encouraged.)

[–] Quills@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, so it is accessible by the api i see, interesting

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

In your case: https://sh.itjust.works/api/v3/user?username=Quills

person_view -> counts -> post_score and comment_score.

But as I said, these values are inaccurate.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Quills@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, people can do it themselves too cuz of the open nature of the software i suppose

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I made it even worse, here's a tampermonkey script I made, that automatically calculates and displays your karma next to your username: https://feddit.de/post/1185964