Another Reddit refugee here,
I think we’re all familiar with the Karma system on Reddit. Do you think Lemmy should have something similar? Because I can see cases for and against it.
For: a way to tracking quality contributions by a user, quantifying reputation. Useful to keep new accounts from spamming communities.
Against: Often not a useful metric, can be botted or otherwise unearned (see u/spez), maybe we should have something else?
What do you all think?
Since I do not know your background, I will not assume you are serious or maliciou. I must however digress and disagree. I will split up your comments (and I have no more time on the Internet today due to family which I love spending time with):
Servers cost money to run: Yes, servers cost money to run. But not all servers are (thankfully) run on ridiculously profitable costs.
People come here to share: Of course they do! And with less profit incentive, people can also be more honest in their posts or comments.
Promoting content that nobody wants: Therre will always be corporate, commercial, shilling or profit interests. But as long as the communities aren’t always wanting that, these interests tend to fade (just like some righteous reddit subs have managed to handle until now).
Flags (or in my terms: badges): Slashdot was THE community that a lot of us with OC mindset escaped from into Digg and then later Reddit. We wanted to come away from sponsored content, sponsored badges and the admin rewarding mindset that lead to communities being overtaken, corrupted or (sorry) teabagged out of any reasonable community engagement or even few-upvotes-posts.
Slashdot was almost extinguished nearly 20 years ago. Let us not repeat the same mistakes into the Fediverse.