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[-] dditty@lemm.ee 20 points 4 months ago

Karma-farming on Lemmy makes basically no sense because it doesn't even natively report it. I installed a Firefox add-on that tabulates it but it's slow and clunky. Functionally no one sees a user's karma.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 8 points 4 months ago

kbin/mbin shows "reputation points," which is a combination of post and comment votes.

I have no idea what it means.

[-] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago

It means nothing, just like karma

[-] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I honestly think it's kinda lame since you can't see who is just being a troll. That said, there's only like 15 or so people on here so it's not that big a deal as you pretty quickly learn who people are and can just block them or whatever. lol

I also never thought it was a big deal on reddit!; never understood why the people that "didn't care" about karma seemed to care so much about others having it.

[-] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 months ago

In newer versions of Lemmy you can quickly check someone's modlog:

That helps from time to time to see who you're dealing with

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago
[-] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

That's actually really neat

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I honestly think it's kinda lame since you can't see who is just being a troll.

That's exactly why it isn't a thing on Lemmy. Not because knowing who is a troll of a bad thing but because it is a terrible measure of that. Karma systems, like Reddit's are far too easy to game in order to lend a false sense of legitimacy to statements associated with an account (or try to make a legitimate account appear illegitimate) in order to manipulate people. Propagandists and other bad actors love karma systems because of this.

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