• unerds@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I always thought there was some merit to it, like, indicative of someone’s history in engagement on a platform, no?

    I get that it becomes less and less meaningful as people farm it, but there is there no balancing point?

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      1 year ago

      I think people grossely overestimate what people did “for karma”.

      Bots farm karma to seem like legitimate users and bypass min-karma rules.

      Real users didn’t give a shit about the little karma number aside from the fact it told them their stuff got a lot of attention. It could have been a circle with a color gradient and people would have used it as a measure of success anyway.

      People are still going to farm here because they want the attention, it doesn’t matter what the measure is (comment count, updoots wtv)

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        1 year ago

        But it affects my experience on the platform, even if I don’t care about it myself. When people make posts and comments for the karma and not because they think their input is useful then the platform will suck.