I never got the purpose of karma. You can’t spend it, it’s just a pointless number. A few subs used it, fire whatever reason, as a numbers threshold for entry, but getting karma was so trivially easy even without bots that it literally accomplished nothing in that regard.
Not that I ever cared about karma, but I can see why some people did. It plays into peoples need to be liked. Karma associates a number with how well your post is doing. Bigger number = more people liked your post. Basically quantifying how well liked your post is and then gamifying it.
Really that stat would have to be something like total karma divided by your number of posts, or number of views by logged in users on your posts. As a total number it’s meaningless. It’s like someone being a millionaire if humans were immortal. Are they really good at business, or have just been alive a long time?
Your brain sees the reward (karma) and gets a hit of dopamine. In theory this creates a spiral of encouraging you to post more contet for more dopamine hits. More content pulls in more users…
Back in 2013-ish there was a bot that would convert your karma to crypto back when it was cheap enough to just throw around like that. That was the only time in my life that I was ever paid to post, and it was like $6. I wonder how much it would be if I were to find that wallet now, but that was on an account that no longer exists. Oh, well!
Cool meme but you better put more effort when making 2048 beans 2: 4096 electric boogaloos. We are a quality pooppost community after all, not like the general quality of Reddit.
I had a ton of karma points back in the old place. I think they sent me a notice saying I was in the top 5%. Didn’t give a shit. Don’t miss it. Just don’t care at all. Glad to be here with you.
Agree that I personally found it a waste of time but I do wonder if having it encourages more people to post good/funny content more regularly. That said surely it’s the same thing really just having it per post rather than an overall score
“Don’t mind me. Just making some notes for myself about my wife, in a sort of private diary… on a public forum that federates with other public forums. Multiple posts per hour. Ho-hum dee dee dum, oh, wow? Other people are reading this? So shocked.”
Edit: meant this as a post reply, not a reply to your comment. Oh well.
I used to tell myself I didn’t care about karma, but God’s truth is that it made me happy to know that people enjoyed my comments. I did things I’m not proud of for those red arrows.
Now I don’t want karma back. I’m free of the invisible chains that were weighing me down!
Is this one of the endless hints that there is no karma in Lemmy? Have you seen the little up and down arrows under every post and comment? One of my comments recently got forty-five down arrows and I’ll see how many dislikes this comment gets.
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