I am curious to hear opinions on the concept of user karma in general.
Do people miss it?
Are we better off without it?
From a technicial perspective, I don’t see why it couldn’t be implemented. I understand Lemmy doesn’t track this explicitly. However, using a users post and comment history you could come to a number pretty easily, right? I was considering making a toy app that would take a user and instance and spit out a karma score for post and comments, what would stop others from doing the same?
Will it be inevitably pulled into existence by Lemmy users as we mature the platform?
I feel like karma is mildly useful to identify potentially disruptive users, but it’s so easy to abuse it that it isn’t worth the trouble:
It’s theoretically possible that someone creates an add-on that tracks your karma. That’s fine - as long as it doesn’t become the default experience, its impact on the overall Lemmyverse environment would be almost nothing.