On Reddit, you had the "fake internet points". On Lemmy the points are totally real, but still worthless.
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I hope Lemmy's internet points never become a thing people view as important. The way people act on Reddit to get a handful of up votes is embarrassing.
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Is never counted as a total right? As long as it stays that way it shouldn't.
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I've seen some front ends for Lemmy total it.
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I just disable "show votes" in settings and that's it.
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Whoever has the most points on Lemmy has to read the credits in a style of Clive Anderson's choosing.
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Who will be the final boss in this battle?
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Whomever gets the most votes per month has to pay a share of the instance bill for the month
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Even more fake here because you can turn off down votes
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I'm pretty sure you can do that on individual subreddits as well. Do you mean on an instance wide level?
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I don't think it is in Tesseract or Alexandrite but I feel like I vaguely recall Jerboa, the mobile app, having it.
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Admins have the option to disable it on a per instance basis.
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That just blew my mind, I didn't even realize that was a setting.
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Yeah it exists in the metadata, so certain front ends can display it and other platforms like Mbin and PieFed show it as a reputation score or something like that.
I think the way that Lemmy handles it is perfect, there's no reason to display the cumulative score and it definitely acts as a barrier to free and open discussion because people start censoring themselves and judging other users by their profile rather than the things they actually say.
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I've been able to exchange some of my points in the Lemmy Store for a rub on tattoo.
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I'm not following you. I see your previous comment was in a thread about video game bosses though?
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rub on
( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ )
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
You have a point.
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And we should keep it that way. As soon as you can derive value from your profile karma and/or it means something, it'll break any sense of earnest discussion some are trying to have in the first place.
Look at Reddit: any serious thread is peppered with might-be-funny one-liners in the hopes of catching some upvotes. This makes those threads harder to read through, although it does make for funny AI summary results.
It's not just off topic banter to increase karma though. It's also reposting old memes, jokes and stories that did well in the past to farm that sweet karma. Throw in some copied top-level comments too and some subreddits are basically perpetually living in a déjà vu.
Let's not try to aim for that.
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Now this is democracy
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It’s ok, it was a bad and unrelated joke.
I was just suggesting that the Lemmy system was better than the Reddit system, but that there might be a better system than this.
