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[–] plisken@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Although it would be good to see someone's karma with you. If I've downvoted someone more than 5 times, I'd like to know so that I can just block them.

[–] gelouse@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly this. I like to know when someone is habitually being a clown so I can remove them from my life.

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Good or bad I think it is kind of cool to have an easy way to know if have interacted with the random person before.

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

RES has tags and labels that you can create and stick to a user

[–] nephs@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It's very cool to meet people again in different sublemmyts. Feels like the federation thing is for realz.

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

Good points. Now it's small enough that you can often just recognize the username, but that could be a cool functionality to add later on.

[–] RomanRoy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Loccy 3 points 1 year ago

No, Roy, we don't.

[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Saw your username. Do you know any Metal Gear Solid communities here?

[–] MeowyNin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For real. A community doesn't need an inherent popularity contest.

[–] Josephine@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plus no karma farms, imagine posting for the sake of it

[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why were there Karma farms anyway? Is there any benefit on Reddit for a lot of Karma?

[–] Alkalyon@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Different subreddits had different rules. In some subs you needed loads of karma to post.

Karma farming was also used to bump up the account so that it could be sold to malicious buyers for propaganda or spam posting purposes.

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know you can't post in certain subreddits without some amount of Karma but it is usually low like 10 or something. So I don't know why you would really care about an account with thousands of karma.

I don't think Karma plays a role in post viability or anything like that but I could be wrong.

[–] Johanno@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

In reddit mostly porn bots were karma farmers they spammed on certain subs where they got lots of likes and probably later on got into a scam or spam bot that tried to make money.

Funny thing is on r/worldpolitics you could post without any karma and no mods were present but bot attacks got downvoted very hard. Like politics or anything that the people didn't like there.

[–] Conman_Signor@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Nope. And I'm okay with that. I just want to put stuff out there, I don't need points

[–] Shikadi@wirebase.org 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy does have karma