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Why there is no karma thing on Lemmy like at reddit ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 years ago (5 children)

It's just good that there is no karma on user profiles. There will be no hierarchy between users based on karma and no circlejerking around it. Like "hehehe see how you have so small amount of karma" and something else. Karma scores on posts should only matter.

[–] kinetix 5 points 4 years ago (4 children)

There's a comment further below that's actually pretty scary when people believe/live this sort of thing:

On Reddit Karma is typically used to show legitimacy and maturity. If you have 20k Karma from having 20k more upvotes than downvotes, your comment is probably worth giving a read.

That's great - isn't that exactly the 'social score' implemented in China? Yikes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Sure, it's a bit like the Chinese social score. But it's a private company site, not a government score. Huge difference.

[–] kinetix 6 points 4 years ago (1 children)

The construct on Reddit is obviously contained within Reddit, but it's plenty harmful within that environment, when and if people decide whether or not they'll interact with someone else based on their 'score'.

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