This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.
Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.
Sounds good at first, but sooner or later it would result in users using alts to highlight their own comments. Even if it was granted only once a month or less.
Sure, bumping your comments is already possible with alts, but it’s not so effective and distracting like an award would be.
With Reddit Gold, you at least had to decide if you really wanted to spend your real money on it.
I like the concept of users saying “hey that comment helped/entertainment me a lot and really deserves a special spotlight”, but it shouldn’t be too easy to abuse.
Maybe Lemmy
GoldSpotlight should be available to give away once you’ve made a donation. Maybe there would be other problems with that.I think it should be generated by participation that is upvoted. If you contribute enough quality stuff, you get one gold to give out. And yeah it should just be gold, and multiple golds would have just one icon, with a number;
Not entirely true, as Reddit used to have a daily free award, which was actually quite fun to grant to a helpful or funny comment.
Also these awards shouldn’t affect the comment’s order in sorting in any way, just like (I think) it didn’t do that on Reddit either. Sure you could make your comment look like it was liked a lot by someone by using an alt, but in the end it’s still only upvotes that really matter.