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Personally I think not having karma limits is nice currently! I understand why they were used but grinding karma as a lurker on reddit was frustrating.

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[โ€“] BeyonDespair@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I agree with you. I hope karma is not implemented on Lemmy. The up/downvote system is fine the way it is now. I will say also coins and awards. I don't really think those are necessary. I'm aware that was something characteristic to reddit (correct me if I'm wrong) but I prefer all that to not come back.

[โ€“] Badass_panda@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought coins and awards were dumb. I think durable comment logs and karma are good things, though.

[โ€“] impulse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

From what I could gather in my short time here, Karma exists on Lemmy as well, it's just not a public stat and that's great because it completely eliminates the reason for karma whoring.

Sure you could try to add up all the upvotes and deduct your downvotes, but why bother? People trying to raise their karma (or those weirdos who were trying to farm downvotes) were always annoying at best and conversation killers at worst.

[โ€“] jimmyjoners@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think awards might be a good source of revenue though?