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 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 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.
Yes, I think you are right. I did not distinguish properly between karma within a thread, and karma across threads, on an account level.
Within threads (which is what we have here) karma can function as a social regulator. Across threads (which we don’t have) it depends on too many other factors like community size to have that effect.
I agree the latter encourages “karma whoring” without being able to sort good from bad anymore. So at the end of the day, I find the current system is a quite sensible compromise.