Moving to: m/AskMbin!

Yes, karma farming just encouraged reposting of popular posts. I can't stand seeing the same thing over and over again- across and in the same subs.

I agree with this. Fake internet points ruin the internet.

Agreed. This place shouldn't be a popularity contest.

There are some basic use-cases, imho. Quite a few subs required a minimum level of karma, age, and perhaps activity to reduce spammers.

I see no reason to track karma above 1000 or so, though. Even the most choosy subs never asked for that much karma, so I assume that should be fine.

agree totally, the constant reposting to karma farm was one of the biggest annoyances

Yep this ^

The comment/article up/downvote functions combined with personal filters/ban/blacklist tools is all that's needed. Some kind of strange "karma" or global reputation over time is the detrimental to the site and discussions and encourages bandwagoning users.

Exactly. Comments and posts/threads should have up and down votes, but those should not accumulate on an account like Karma does.

It gets people used to the idea that the more points a person has, clearly the better quality their account must be, when in reality Karma could be easily accumulated by exploiting lurkers with cute animal photos or generic/milquetoast opinion pieces literally nobody could disagree with.

Edit: milquetoast not milktoast

Reddit Karma exists to get a score of 1000000, at which point the account is worth serious money on the black market. With a Karma of 1000000, all banned subs and moderated/deleted content is visible. It's the world's biggest CP operation operating in plain sight. Always has had that reputation, but nothing ever changed.

Or just improve on the awards system and make it shared donations between the instance owner and app developer. The more usage, the higher contributions probably.

They could be a better revenue source than ads, I believe.

other parts of the fediverse have emoji reactions already. you can emoji react to kbin posts from elsewhere, but it doesn't show up on kbin.

this means that kbin may eventually get something like Awards, but if they use the same APIs as emoji reactions, they won't be paid.

Don't know if you mean that profile pictures hiding should be a magazine specific setting, but you personally can hide profile pictures (and magazine logos) in your side bar settings.

Propaganda??? I personally like pfps/avatars and think they're an important part of any traditional forum. Identity is important in communities and I think they help facilitate that. I just wish that I could adjust the size of the on Kbin because they're way too small for me. 🥲 But you should always have the option to hide them as well.

Was super annoying to have them on reddit, glad one can disable it here.

Well, I think it's already here but with instances

Relay and old.reddit really kept me sheltered. I knew chat was a thing but I managed to avoid the rest. That all sounds awful.

Don't forget at one point they wanted to copy Clubhouse too!