• @noisetricks@sopuli.xyz
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      22 years ago

      Yeah making discussions into addictions, not because of the subject, but because of the good boy points was always stupid.

      • @EeeDawg101@lemmy.ml
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        22 years ago

        God I hated all the joke comments that wound up at the top with thousands of upvotes. Just one big circle jerk on many serious topics. I’m sure it’ll still occur in Lemmy to some extent but hopefully the lack of karma will help keep it down.

      • @Evrala@lemmy.world
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        22 years ago

        It also made participating in smaller subreddits a little less satisfying, even though I liked the conversations in those more.

        There was just something about a random comment in a giant subreddit suddenly getting me sooo many points, more than I had made in months!

        Logically I knew karma didn’t really matter, but big numbers gud!

      • Zyratoxx
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        12 years ago

        If there’s no karma, then what are the two numbers that “Thunder” displays next to my account age?

        • cod
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          12 years ago

          I’ve got the same with Memmy. I think these apps just add your upvotes and downvotes together to give you a score. Reddit, on the other hand, had a complex karma system, where the more upvotes/downvotes your post would get, the less those would be worth, so you couldn’t just get a massive karma score from just a couple popular posts

          • Zyratoxx
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            12 years ago

            Yeah, and didn’t early upvotes count more than later ones?

          • Zyratoxx
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            12 years ago

            Yes, but it’s only available via GitHub which means you gotta update it manually… No PlayStore or F-Droid atm afaik

        • Lenins2ndCat
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          02 years ago

          There is a score kept in the backend, it just has no frontend in default lemmy and only exists if instance devs want to do something custom with it. Some apps are probably using it.

          • Emi
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            12 years ago

            Yep, The Memmy IOS app has a lot of details on the profile page