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?
I thought it did already. what are these voting buttons
Karma is tied to an account. Just up/down votes on posts does not stick with the account that posted it.
They apply to the post or comment, but they don’t count to the user at all.