Leave it as it is.

Karma wouldn't work on Lemmy. I could just make an instance and run a script to give myself as much upvotes as I wanted.

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.

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

I never really got the appeal of having a lot of total karma. I guess it was "neat" having over 100,000 comment karma, but really I care more about how well received an individual post or comment is, which lemmy still largely retains.

Good! The only role of good 'karma' should only have ever been about content quality and therefore content visibility. Content of bad quality can be reported or blocked.

Ranking a user's value based essentially 'how long they've been here' isn't meaningful. Even giving users a score based on their average votes would still prioritise groupthink and homogeny.

I'm so much happier without it. Having a big number next to your name is such a tired little ego trip

Stuff like karma directly contributes to an environment where things are said and done for approval instead of genuine expression. I hope the new platforms don't include anything like it.

Why?

Posts should have the ability to be promoted or buried, to help highlight interesting stuff.

But why people? I don't get it. Isn't this place more like a forum than a social network?

Leave that crap for Facebook etc..

Actually I think the whole upvote system sucks. I prefer 4chan, every comment is equal and people just ignore dumb shit. The upvote system promotes popular opinions and discourages saying anything that remotely goes against the flow. It's what made reddit such a echo-chamber circle-jerk place.

Karma is the most stripper name I’ve ever heard.

No.

I hope that this will never be a thing lol. Most annoying "feature" of reddit

I never understood the karma thing. Why do I care about a made up number. Unless it equates to something tangible. I can see it to help with spam bots, but that's about it.

Are they? I haven’t seen anyone demanding that yet but I’m certainly not a seasoned fediverse vet. I never cared about Karma on Reddit so hopefully it doesn’t make it here.

Nah keep that thing outta here

Can’t wait for Lemmy to take off and then have people forever being “ omg I was here before the Reddit lot hipsters” but they got here 10 mins ago like me.