Another Reddit refugee here,
I think we’re all familiar with the Karma system on Reddit. Do you think Lemmy should have something similar? Because I can see cases for and against it.
For: a way to tracking quality contributions by a user, quantifying reputation. Useful to keep new accounts from spamming communities.
Against: Often not a useful metric, can be botted or otherwise unearned (see u/spez), maybe we should have something else?
What do you all think?
Anyone here old enough to remember slashdot? I liked their karma system. The maximum a post could get was +5, and I think the minimum was -1. I don’t quite recall the details, but it was pretty effective. People didn’t shamelessly karma farm because there wasn’t any point. If you are at +5 there’s nowhere else to go.
Slashdot.org still exists. They just don’t have a slashdot effect anymore.