Another Reddit refugee here,
I think we’re all familiar with the Karma system on Reddit. Do you think Lemmy should have something similar? Because I can see cases for and against it.
For: a way to tracking quality contributions by a user, quantifying reputation. Useful to keep new accounts from spamming communities.
Against: Often not a useful metric, can be botted or otherwise unearned (see u/spez), maybe we should have something else?
What do you all think?
I couldn’t really see the point at Reddit (seemed like an idea someone has once early on that got stuck) and I don’t think it’d be that helpful here. If we are looking for ways to differentiate ourselves from Reddit, then that’d be one.
Let the quality of someone’s account be measured by the quality of the posts they make.