i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

  • Ilikecheese@vlemmy.net
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    1 year ago

    I saw a post about how there is no Karma on Lemmy, but every user still has post scores and comment scores displayed. Isn’t that literally the exact same thing?

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      1 year ago

      I’m guessing here, but upvotes and downvotes are still useful as a tool to sort the better replies from the shitty ones, but I don’t think Lemmy keeps track of your “karma” on your profile like reddit. Hopefully that will stop people from just posting bullshit to karma farm.

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        1 year ago

        It does keep track, but not all apps display it. Several do, the one I use, wefwef, does so I assumed they all did, but that’s not the case.

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        1 year ago

        I just read in another thread that the scores are only visible in some apps, but not others. I have only been using wefwef, and it’s visible there(although supposedly not correctly), but I guess not everywhere so most people seem to think the scores don’t exist.

        It’s wonky, but that’s kind of part of the charm, I guess.

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      1 year ago

      I was referring more to an account’s total karma, but well, yeah they’re mostly the same now that I think about it. I guess you can’t really have a social platform without a similar system.