cross-posted from: https://lemme.discus.sh/post/851
I recently found this Firefox extension that looks safe (I checked some network activity but DOUBLE CHECK) and brings back Karma on Lemmy!
INB4: if you don’t like karma on lemmy, you are in good company. There is no need to hate the ones that do like them.
Of course being unofficial it’s just a cosmetic feature, so it hopefully can be a funny thing without going to be toxic like on Reddit.
How much karma do u have?
Its not that i disagree but i see the risk that the karma will come back as hey you have low karma, you cant do sh*t. Or the whole thing with “Karma farming”. People posting more what everyone wants to hear and not whats right or interesting for some.
Hrm, I think people already do that though.
Just that now instead of clicking on someone and looking at their single Karma value, they click on someone and then scroll down briefly, looking at the point values of the newest comments and posts. It happens anyways because to a user it is desirable to get a non-complicated “is what this person writes in general meh, or is this their one-off post”-answer if they can get one, even if it has of course at best marginal value as an actual indicator (as the karma value does. Or does not, more like.).
As always, the issue is not people being fundamentally bad, or fundamentally good, but being fundamentally people. 😅
Thats a good critic indeed. I agree on that, as I stated below being a non farmer and quite outside the world of karma farmers I only saw it as a naive cosmetic thing