I noticed that Lemmy has the reddit system with upvotes and down votes, but I didn’t found anything about the general ratio of up/down a user have, am I missing something or it is intended?
I hope there will never be a thing such as a karma system on Lemmy.
Personally, I don’t want people to write just what other want to read.
Instead, I want people to write what they really want to say without thinking about their score and the restrictions in case of not having enough points (this doesn’t mean that everyone should feel free to be a bigot of course. Bigotry, obnixious trolling, etc… are not okay and definitely desserve ban).
Sorry to inform you that there already is, it’s just that most instances don’t expose it. But lemmy keeps track of all the up and down votes and i believe it’s all public with the right query to the instance.
That’s a valid and valuable point.
Personally, I don’t want people to write just what other want to read.
Instead, I want people to write what they really want to say without thinking about their score
In a way, both systems are just different implementations of social regulation. One system achieves it through numbers. If you remove numbers, people will still express their approval or dismissal, in words. This has some regulating effect on what people write, how openly they express themselves. And I’m not even sure that’s a bad thing.
Of course, in a system with karma people can still additionally express their reactions with words.
My main point is, we cannot have a system without social regulation, that’s just an inherent part of human interactions. I can think of reasons for and against amplifying it further with karma. Personally I like it though.
I think they were refering to “karma whoring”. It has nothing to do with social regulation, just the fact that there’s a bunch of people (and bots!) that will do anything for fake internet points. It’s just insincere at the end of the day.
