Currency is not inspiration.
I'd rather have cooperation instead of competition as primary incentive: "If I post quality content, others might want to post quality content as well"
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2025
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Maybe try to get used to how lemmy is instead of immediately trying to change it into a carbon copy of reddit.
I prefer being able to separately see the number of down votes.
Also your redditisms are a great reminder of how people here talk normally instead of exclusively in quips
Karma? The system that encouraged people to make the most milquetoast posts to appeal as many users as possible? Karma farming heavily reduced quality on reddit.
No thank you. We need some sort of encouragement but karma is not it.
Award trophies maybe with no karma? The 1% top poster was always nice to earn on reddit in niche communities
I dont see any other options that dont have the same effect as karma tbh
Jfc, no.
Karma was part of the problem with reddit, we don't need or want it here
a christian samurai!
Alas, while I do have a bias against religion in general, it isn't because I'm christian
Karma is not a good system.
I do agree however that additional features to encourage posting and engagement would be good for Lemmy.
what do you have in mind whne mentioning this?
I like contributing to a community and see it climb the ladder https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=music&order=active
Something has gone horribly right here LMAO.
The description of your community includes the word "music". I would suggest using the "Smart Sort" option instead.
The Alexandrite front end for Lemmy has a feature called "Vibe Check" that shows a user's positive or negative score in each community they post within. It is a nice check for spotting trolls quickly, or even if a person "trolls" in one community but not others. If you scroll down their profile past around the first ~30 comments/posts (Alexandrite is infinite scrolling), it will score the vibe check on however many comments/posts are loaded which is usually 100 loaded when past this ~30 mark.
Wow, Alexandrite is really good now! I wish I could try that Vibe Check tool, but it only appears when logged in, and I'm an Mbin user.
I don't miss karma being a thing (and people focusing on growing it by pleasing as many as possible, instead of focusing on content) but I'm also past the age of getting good/bad grades for doing my homework or for participating in class ;)
I'm pretty sure introducing karma will boost low effort reddit-like posts. And those don't need any encouragement, imho.
low effort reddit-like posts
Let's say Lemmy becomes the biggest platform for forum like exchange. Will a lack in karma system change low effort issues since we still have a upvote based community systems? Where bots could influence certain opinions that show up on your feed
My current impressions:
Art communities sadly seem so lackluster - "like why share" is the vibe Im getting. I just want a strong unique selling point (USP) compared to reddit, because lemmy could replace (not saying it should copy) reddit, like the good parts, and show how reddit is in essence flawed like x and meta for example.
Or communities showing political/global media of what people recorded (i.e. some protest in istanbul right now, or serbia using sonic weaponry at a demonstration), even more regional like r/de always gives you a very complete feeling slice of german articles out there and its always rated so regularly. You can see like the top 5 publications of the day and then discuss it/see how people feel about certain things, that you wouldnt think about just reading the article.
I just fear the personal motivation for users might be too low for such feed activity, and often I notive like 10 people upvoting and not a single comment, so more reactionary - maybe its just total users tho what im missing..
IDK, if you want to post, you post. I don't feel that encouragement is really needed.
I currently miss a point system to motivate me that shows people via my profile how much I could help by posting/commenting.
Wut?
Are you expecting, like, a bidding war or something?
Some instances disable downvotes. This is an important thing to consider for anything related to post/comment scores.
Edit: I also fear that a karma system would encourage just sticking with the overall Lemmy, instance or community mainstream, more than it is now already the case with up/downvotes and how they affect the sorting of posts/comments.
We don't need those. Sharing what you like is enough :)