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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like that it doesn't have karma. reddit has been deteriorating since 2016 2017. karma farming bots have increased in size so much. quality had dropped too much. I have been discussing about this with many friends since long and was trying to find alternative. I love that this decision has given enough momentum to federated spaces. now we will have some quality content and discussion without platform owner's vested interests

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

This is something I had neglected to think of. A reward/points system leads to bots farming for points, then selling the account. On the other hand, karma can be a good indicator to community moderators of weather that user isn’t just a spam account.

Edit: To clarify comment karma is a good metric for mods, not post karma. Its much harder to gain karma via comments because you can’t just repost r/oddlysatisfying shit, but that could change with GPT and open source LLMs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Spam/bot accounts easily gained more karma than average users. User history has always been the best identifier that an account is genuine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Comment karma is harder to gain than post karma, which is why many Reddit mods (including me) use it as a metric instead of combined karma. That is what I intended to say. Sorry about the confusion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What if there was shadow karma, that you can only see if you are a mod, and the user cannot?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That actually seems like a good idea! Account farms won’t be able to abuse the system anymore.