If we keep it without karma, bagdes and other reward crap then the only reward is the information of the post itself, the plus that ir brings to the people involved. As a forum should be.

As someone who used reddit when Dig was still big; let Karma die, it's so stupid.

Upvoting posts is fine, but Karma I can do without. Back on Reddit sometimes I help somebody with something and I get maybe 3 or 4 Karma. Make a stupid joke in a popular Thread and get that hundred fold. Karma is useless.

Honestly I don't mind the upvote and downvote system but i don't want reddit replicated.

Lemmy is a classless, stateless, and karmaless society

I really hope that Lemmy will never have it. Karma destroyed Reddit.

Good. Karma just incentivizes the monetization of accounts. Without karma there is less incentive for bots and grifters since visibility/prominence/influence can no longer be bought and sold.

Technically, Lemmy does keep track of your total post/comment votes. It's just not visible from the current client. Hopefully it stays that way.

If there was one change on Reddit to make it'd be to get rid of karma. Upvotes and such show support and disapproval, but karma just pushes people into shitty social media actions.

I amassed a huge amount of karma and I have no idea what that meant? The truth was "I posted a lot" that's all.

If any devs ever implement karma into Lemmy, I will shut down my subs and leave.

I mean that with 100% seriousness. Karma is one of the most evil concepts ever conceived in the history of the internet. It brings out the darkness in a motherfucker.

Hard no

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

To anyone suggesting karma is a good anti bot tool, remember there is karma whoring. Nothing is stopping a bot from spamming useless things, and interacting with other bot posts to build karma. This is already happening on reddit when you navigate to weird subs where all the content is coming from one account posting links to the same shitty tabloid site. Yet this content is getting upvotes from something.

Karma is security theater, I think the mods were the true anti-bot force.

What was the point of karma? I never understood the value in having it.

No karma, no karma farming.

I say stay strong and refuse. I can't see a single benefit outweighing the disadvantages and in particular botting to game that flawed system.

For the love of God, keep karma off this platform. Let upvoting and downvoting function purely as a way to prioritise posts.

This comment constitutes my first real interaction with a Lemmy instance, and this post is how I'm learning that Lemmy doesn't have reddit-style karma.

Suffice to say I'm very happy to learn this. +1 point in favor of higher quality, organic content generation.

It would be interesting to have a poll on how many people really would want reddit-style karma on lemmy. I suspect it wouldn't be that high

Wait what? There’s no karma here?

How will I be a gazillionaire?

The advertisers end up monetizing karma. Screw that noise!

Reddit Karma really just incentives unhelpful but funny/highly agreeable post. Upvotes are fine as a per-thread moderation system, but when you have a total of all up votes it opens the door to circlejerks and discriminating against users with low karma score (which also incentives circlejerks as a quick way to earn enough karma to be a valid user, enables paid shills and enables account selling).

Karma totals is more or less one of the biggest flaws with reddit.

Let's not, we're all better off without imaginary internet points.

If we keep it without karma, bagdes and other reward crap then the only reward is the information of the post itself, the plus that ir brings to the people involved. As a forum should be.

Oh Dear.

Leave it as it is.