I noticed that Lemmy has the reddit system with upvotes and down votes, but I didn’t found anything about the general ratio of up/down a user have, am I missing something or it is intended?
I hope there will never be a thing such as a karma system on Lemmy.
Personally, I don’t want people to write just what other want to read.
Instead, I want people to write what they really want to say without thinking about their score and the restrictions in case of not having enough points (this doesn’t mean that everyone should feel free to be a bigot of course. Bigotry, obnixious trolling, etc… are not okay and definitely desserve ban).
I love to create content (comments, posts) that are both thought-provoking of more serious topics, and content for amusement as well. While agreeing on the rules, I want to go and be me (delving bravely in controversial topics as well since I enjoy them too), without trying in purpose to generate only stuff that I know is already-agreeable to folks for gaining only Internet points.
I know that karma is a double-edged sword - it can give a boost to someone who wants to create good content, making more of it while feeling appreciated…and the same thing for someone who just goes “full s***posting”. Don’t get me wrong - both have their time and place to be important, but…
…I admit I find myself thinking and wishing for a karma system, repeatedly. I have already counted some of the votes I’ve gotten from my top comments and posts (yes, negatives calculated too!) once. But if the deal just is that there won’t be a karma system because it would create more harm than good, I’ll accept it, continue dreaming and trying to make more content. And calculating my gains once in a while to get any idea of where I’m at 😂 (could be cool if there was an Online tool that did the calculating by entering my username!)
