I’m a simple man, number go up causes endorphin release.

  • Jim@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I don’t like karma. It incentivizes short, meme-y posts since those are things that get gets a lot of karma.

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      1 year ago

      That’s correct. It’s also horrible for the comments section because people hate-downvote comments they disagree with, which in turn leads to people avoiding making possibly unpopular comments. It’s really hurtful to meaningful discussion.

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        1 year ago

        Upload and down vote are still present, and unless I’m mistaken this comment section I’m looking at is still sorted by vote score.

        Hate down votes are inevitable, I don’t think they are a result of your total number of points being displayed on your profile.

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      1 year ago

      That is an issues with the up vote/down vote system.

      But a good thing with that system, is that it helps to keep away hate, racism, trash and dangerous content in most of the subs/communities.

      So it’s a bad for a good? Sorting by controversial on big posts often show trash and hate on reddit.

      • Jim@programming.dev
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        1 year ago

        Yes but karma makes it worse. It incentivizes getting getting upvotes because you don’t want to “ruin” your karma. Expressing controversial opinions, even if they don’t generate downvotes, are discouraged with karma. Even OP says he gets a dopamine hit by seeing the karma number go up.

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      1 year ago

      Everything else is still there in regards to how posts are shown and sorted by votes, as well as people in general just liking humor. I don’t think Lemmy is fundamentally any different in that trend.