Personally, I prefer Lemmy over Kbin because I hate karma and reputation points. I do not want to worry about downvotes, and Lemmy feels so fresh. I can post things that will receive lots of downvotes and not need to worry about losing karma.

  • HTTP_404_NotFound
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    241 year ago

    Technically, lemmy does actually track a user’s karma.

    It’s- just not exposed via the user interface… as of right now.

    Kinda of like how kbin displays who upvotes and downvotes. Lemmy also tracks this data too, and can easily report on exactly who is upvoting and downvoting.

    In the case of this post, for example-

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      121 year ago

      In the case of karma- Its all there too.

      Comment Karma

      Comment Negative Karma.

      And- post karma exists too.

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        1 year ago

        Oh dear. I am disappointed to see that. I can understand the point of scoring posts and comments, but what’s the point of keeping a score for the user? Is there a use for it now, or is it being kept just in case there’s a use for it later?

        Hopefully it will not get exposed in the UI.

        • Communist
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          101 year ago

          It’s necessary because the website is transparent, if you were to federate with an instance, you’d need this information in order to moderate your instance, in order to check for bots, and various other things, that’s the only reason it exists.

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          For votes to work, the data of who voted where has to be tracked.

          Karma is just a matter of adding numbers together.

          I think the data can be useful for anti spam reasons

          • @QuestionMark@vlemmy.net
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            11 year ago

            How are you supposed to comment or post to earn Karma if you’re blocked because of having low Karma?! It is also bad for new users.

        • @gylotip@lemmy.mlOP
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          31 year ago

          I am disappointed by this. Karma ruins whole discussions, and I hope the devs never add something bloody dreadful like that.

          • Communist
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            41 year ago

            It’s necessary because the website is transparent, if you were to federate with an instance, you’d need this information in order to moderate your instance, in order to check for bots, and various other things, that’s the only reason it exists.