As a somewhat frequent poster myself, I kind of miss the meaningless number going up. It lets me track how many people have seen the stuff I posted and cared enough to react
There is an option in your settings so you don’t see upvotes or downvotes on individual comments.
None of these imaginary points matter.
(Lemmy is rad)
No, it just existed to block people from posting.
Nope. I was on reddit for like 14 years and I couldn’t tell you what my karma was because I cared so little about it. I paid a little attention to up votes and that’s about it.
Never cared about the cumulative, only about the score on individual comments. Still got that, still get the little dopamine hit from looking at it.
Not only do I not miss it, I’m relieved that it’s not here.
No, and I wish votes didn’t even exist here.
Votes are the only reason making a social platform social.
Juat look at Youtube comments, Instagram, Facebook, etc. None have downvotes.
Its somehow more social to see opinions on votes besides text.
I think voting is completely unnecessary, and is a sort of “participation placebo” for the lazy but opinionated.
Its more about reflecting on your own comment or post.
Here is a good post about this topic https://lemmy.ml/post/29375485
I find a good amount of opinions in that post highly idealized and conceptual, but not really the end experience. Nevertheless, thank you for sharing the link.
I’d be more open to a voting system that rewards actual contribution. For example, a user is allotted (rewarded?) a certain number of votes for every post and every comment they make. The content creators and discussion participants drive the platform.
I’m sure a whole new set of problems would arise, but I feel it’d be a fresh experience, with less armchair warriors.
Nobody needs to vote, but if most people do vote, makes it easier for everyone to find good content.
The best content on this platform often has less than 10 votes. The most? The sociopolitical headline mill communities.
If certain people feel that’s the good content, that’s their prerogative. I don’t.
Now you’re conflating quality with popularity.
A popularity metric is still handy since there is no objective quality metric.
That’s a fair point.
Kinda. At least there’s per post karma
nope
Ye kinda. But I’m so happy that it’s gone. A lot people go wild when they see a number they can increase.
No. I don’t even like visible vote count. I think it hurts us more than it helps.
I get where you’re coming from. You could revisit the contributions you’ve made and the messages and replies you’ve received. The difference is that those ARE meaningful and hopefully in a good way. I think Reddit actively pushes the concept of karma because it’s an great engagement metric and they love that.
My opinion is that Reddit is captured and driven to push engagement for advertising revenue at the expense of meaningful interaction. Lemmy is a platform where that engagement metric is only intrinsic to the individual. People are here because they want to have meaningful conversations? Maybe I’m dreaming
That’s a good point. I was just thinking on it since I recently reached 500 posts. Might go scroll through them and look at some of the comments again
If you’re dreaming, we’re sharing the same dream.
If I cared about karma I would be on Reddit instead of here.
No.
Noooo
Some apps and front ends support showing your post and comment “karma”. Eternity, for example
