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

[kolanaki@yiffit.net]

Honestly, that way for obtaining flair and shit would be preferable to spending actual money.

[tranquilturbulence@lemmy.zip]

We all know that decorating your in-game character with cosmetics is the true endgame.

[hypna@lemmy.world]

I've been thinking recently that Lemmy would simply be better off without any comment votes. I've heard some instances disable them, but it still seems to be the norm. Group think already has enough pull given human nature. It doesn't need a boost.

[gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works]

I mean I don’t think showing votes on posts and comments is inherently bad… but aggregating them to a user across instances seems not only technically challenging from a protocol sense (given that (de)federation and blacklisting is entirely in the control of the server admin), but also a feature that should be intentionally omitted. It’s genuinely not a useful metric in terms of building communities, which I think the lemmy stack should (and does) consider to be an essentially overriding priority.

[paradachshund@lemmy.today]

I agree. At the very least they say "this many people liked what you said or posted enough to click this button", and that is far from meaningless.

[satyrsack@feddit.org]

I like vote counts on posts, because they help me understand what sort of content the community likes, and what sorts I should just not post again. But a cumulative total on my profile? I really don't care.

[ultragigagigantic@lemmy.ml]

My profile already looks amazing, no need for mtx.

[shalafi@lemmy.world]

Banned, despite plenty of upvotes.

Refuse : microblogmemes

(old.lemmy.world)

Happens all the time. Anything to say @[email protected] or @[email protected]?

[d00phy@lemmy.world]

Damn! I forgot all about that! Maybe cause I didn’t take it seriously because no real publisher takes the Chicago guide seriously! MLA all day every day m-fers!

[d00phy@lemmy.world]

Yeah, I don’t get it either. People who take joy in the anger of others are… a different breed.

[tranquilturbulence@lemmy.zip]

Most people play Minecraft to build stuff. Other people just fill a village with TNT.

I guess those people also treat social media as a game of sorts. Instead of playing it the normal way, they try to find the most unorthodox ways to play it, and that results in a massive torrent of downvotes.