On Reddit, you had the "fake internet points". On Lemmy the points are totally real, but still worthless.

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What happens to the ultra trolls who have a negative total?

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Is gouda fine?

Björn Tantau

And my axe!

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But it is incredible the power those points have in our mind! Just now I'm being downvoted for a comment I did and I immediately felt the need to go there and justify the point I was trying to make. It took some effort to convince myself that I don't care about that and that I don't have to justify to those that didn't understand my point.

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I don't even know you have points on Lemmy. how do I check them

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All depends on which app / UI you're using I guess but it should look pretty much like Reddit almost everywhere. The only difference here is that there's no grand total at the top of your profile like a high score. But when I was signed up on world, in the app I'm using you could see separate up and down vote counts for everything.

slazer2au

Didn't say it was limited to up votes. Just the total number.

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Overview - gi1242 - kbin.earth

content aggregator and micro-blogging platform for the fediverse

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Reputation points 7099

Moderated 0

Blaze (he/him)

Since 0.19.4 you can hide downvotes in your settings. Unfortunately LW still runs 0.19.3

Blaze (he/him)

Since 0.19.4 you can also hide downvotes in your settings.

Blaze (he/him)

Lemmy.world users can't unfortunately (it arrived in 0.19.4 IIRC)

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I thought about that too. If they were completely meaningless then why would they be used for sorting purposes. Turns out, they do mean something and they can be used for something.

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Yes that is true on reddit. Not on Lemmy though afaik

d00phy

When I first got on Lemmy, there were a bunch of discussions about getting rid of downvotes, and I thought this was a bad idea. For the most part, they do a good job of allowing the communities to self-moderate. Sure there are trolls that downvote everything, and they can rot in Hell, but they’re a very small majority. Generally speaking, up/downvotes provide an easy way to sort the wheat from the chaff in both posts and comments.

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If Muskrat signs up for Lemmy he will pay someone for a high upload account.

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Must confess, those points do seem to wield some strange power over my mind. Kinda scary actually. Some people have disabled those numbers entirely, and I’m beginning to see why.

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Some of that could be karma grinding, but for the most part, that is probably just people having fun. Many come to social media platforms for recreational purposes.

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Dr. Integer Overflow.

My guess is, you’ll need 4 294 967 296 votes to start the boss fight.

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Yeah, that’s what I meant…just didn’t include the word “Reddit”.

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I love internet points they make me feel good