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Reasons (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 weeks ago by MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz to c/fedimemes@feddit.uk

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[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 26 points 2 weeks ago

But Lemmy has karma

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 65 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It used to. Kind of. The APi endpoint for accessing someone's lifetime upvotes minus downvotes was never used in the webUI, and was removed completely a while back.

The devs don't want accounts to have "scores".

If you're just referring to votes in general, that's not what "karma" refers to. Karma on reddit is how much upvotes your account has gotten vs downvotes. How "good" you are.

The idea is that with that number visible, you get people "karma whoring". Posting just for the sake of it, often with low effort, either to inflate or tank their scores as high/low as possible.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

Where can you see it in the Lemmy UI nowadays?

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They're wrong. They think karma is the individual post or comment votes. Lemmy doesn't have karma.

[-] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

good choice imo.

[-] Isa@feddit.org 16 points 2 weeks ago

But what are the reasons?! 🤯

[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 16 points 2 weeks ago

some of us are demons

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

The rest of us just code daemons

[-] Isa@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago

Ah good 😅, I feared for a moment, that it might have some more serious reasons.

[-] Ziglin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Oh you meant the human sacrifices? They're unrelated.

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Pentagram? That’s K5, the complete graph with 5 vertices. I imagine it’s there to represent the graph of federated instances.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

TILhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_graph

[-] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Also, it points upwards, the satanic version is upside down (like the satanic cross).

The pentagram has far longer been a holy or symbol of protection for people who are into that kind of thing. Not sure if that matters though because it also applies to the swastika.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago

It's perfect and as it should be.

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

People need to chill about pentagrams. I've explored enough paganism to know they're good symbols with pleasant intent. Christians really fucked those up for everyone like they did everything else. It's a shame that their satanization of old religious and spiritual imagery has affected the perception of even non-Christian folk.