• kaiomai
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    2 years ago

    Beans, beans, they’re good for your heart. The more you eat the more you fart. The more you fart the better you feel, so let’s eat beans with every meal!

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      Beans, bean, the magical fruit, The more you eat, the more you toot, So eat your beans and have a good meal, And remember to fart after every meal.

      That’s my regional variation.

  • PatFusty
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    72 years ago

    Itd be cool if we can use the updoots we get as points toward stickers or some shit that we can give to ppl. Thats all ppl wanted for the 15+ years being on reddit.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 years ago

      I’m worried that it would create a reason for bots to spam the communities and farm for points.

  • @[email protected]
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    242 years ago

    Fun fact: the Lemmy backend does track Karma. As an instance admin I can pull it up from the database and rest assured I AM judging you.

  • Smoogy
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    232 years ago

    Rearward/punishment systems are corrupt. Good on lemmy for not playing into that bullshit

    • @[email protected]
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      62 years ago

      I left kbin because they have reputation (karma) and peop3were already overly concerned about their rep score there. Bare 3 weeks and they’re rep whoring over there.

      • astraeus
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        82 years ago

        Some clients will count things up for you, it’s a way to keep people interested. Ultimately I agree that karma systems encourage people to take things to an extreme and defeat the purpose of interacting in a community. It’s like gambling.

        • @[email protected]
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          82 years ago

          It’d be better not to have that option, to avoid going the way of Reddit with karma farming bots reposting everything so they can sell their high karma accounts.

    • @[email protected]
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      72 years ago

      The worst was when the cryptocurrency subreddit started literally paying everyone for their karma. Over the course of a couple years, the useful criticism of bad ideas dried up, and so the people promoting bad ideas for profit took over.

      Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

      — Isaac Asimov

    • metarmask
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      82 years ago

      Karma is tied to the person and is the sum of the score for all posts, or all comments. But it is actually counted by the server, just not displayed in the default UI. You can go /api/v3/[email protected] and search for post_score or comment_score.

    • @[email protected]
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      162 years ago

      I think they mean account-scale points. As in the 30 points you get from this post and 20 from a different post total to 50 karma. Pretty core feature on Reddit and doesn’t exist on Lemmy.

      • Froyn
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        152 years ago

        Here’s hoping fake internet points dies with Reddit.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 years ago

        Ah, that. Got it. Did people really check rando’s karma? I don’t think I ever looked up somebody’s karma, I don’t even really care about mine… Individual upvotes can give a nice dopamine rush from that sweet validation, though.