I am curious to hear opinions on the concept of user karma in general.

Do people miss it?
Are we better off without it?

From a technicial perspective, I don’t see why it couldn’t be implemented. I understand Lemmy doesn’t track this explicitly. However, using a users post and comment history you could come to a number pretty easily, right? I was considering making a toy app that would take a user and instance and spit out a karma score for post and comments, what would stop others from doing the same?

Will it be inevitably pulled into existence by Lemmy users as we mature the platform?

  • AggressivelyPassive
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    111 year ago

    A system to boil down the “not-shittiness” to a single value isn’t the worst idea.

    Currently, it’s really hard to distinguish an average user and a bona fide asshole and a bot account.

    Now, if the reddit style Karma is the right tool, I’m not sure.