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    there is no need to hide useful information from your user base

    yet only the instance admins can see my total karma point sum while I can’t. It seems this has been removed to prevent “karma farming”. I don’t get it.

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      I thought it wasn’t available to anyone, but why would you want to view it? I never felt the karma system added much to reddit except the aforementioned karma farmers

      I’m not really for or against it though

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        I thought it wasn’t available to anyone

        Instance admins have the database and up/downvotes are stored there. Even if they don’t see it directly in the UI, it’d be trivial to extract the data with a simple db query.

        I never felt the karma system added much to reddit

        The important part: Reward/Penalty is vital for social network adoption. While it’s not vital to anyone, it’s the only way to check, well, your karma (in relation to other users) at a single glance.

        Also people are dopamine driven. I honestly doubt that even you weren’t even a bit happy when you saw a post getting many upvotes additional to positive feedback. Or maybe surprised, when you suddenly lost a lot of karma for some comment you did with best intents. It’s quite hard to check every past comment/post, so the total sum makes sense.

        Also it’s a good mechanism (not perfect for sure) to assess a user. E.g. some subreddits had a minimum karma limit required for posting/commenting. This led to karma farming and made it A LOT harder for bots or trolls with a gazillion accounts.

        I’m not really for or against it though

        Fair enough. I’m solid pro. We already use karma to sort posts and the data is there - just hidden. The upsides weigh heavier for me than the downsides.

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      Honestly, while I could care less about karma, this is likely just due to the infancy of the software. You had 2 people working on this for ~3 years, and in three days their user base increased 10x. It’s not like they were given time to prepare (thanks spez). These things will be worked out, we just have to be patient. It is worth the wait for federation.