• darthfabulous42069@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s probably a good reason not to use Wefwef 🤦

    Here, your comments can be upvoted and downvoted, but it’s purposefully not totaled and kept separate from your profile. I don’t know why the devs of that app decided to total them all together – that total is your karma and people did tie their self-worth and their social standing to their karma. It’s what made Reddit so toxic

    We all better go say something to the Wefwef devs and make them take that shit off

    • Norgur@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      yeah. Karma was really bad when you happened to say something that was either misunderstood or maybe a valid oppinion but against the population of the sub. I dared to say that men and women differ in some life-experiences around puberty in BadGirlsAnatomy once… They took that as if I was invalidating their experiences somehow… holy cow the downvotes!

      Karma made me feel those downvotes, because they had some permanent impact on my overall profile, so I never dared to discuss anything in that sub ever again, leading to bubbles. I ain’t wanting that back.

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        Karma gave a way of guaging people reputation - if you were negative karma, because each negatively voted post only counted for a minimum of -10 additional karma, it was easy to tell if the majority of posts on a user profile were negatively geared.

        Now with Lemmy, in order to tell this, you actually have to look at the posts and comments, which means you have more chances of reading them and gaining context as to why they seem to be such a contrarian.

        It inherently leads to less judgement simply because it’s not as bleedingly obvious how bad someone’s comments are. Which in turn, leads to a better feel to the community and less dogpiling.

        Also it gives people a greater chance to make a “come back” - they may go through a negative streak, but because people don’t discount their opinions simply because of karma score they can more easily climb out of the negative spiral as people less people will look, and those who do only look at the most recent comment scores.

        Positivity breeds positivity, likewise negativity breeds negativity, often faster than positivity.

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      Kbin has a total reputation score, but it’s broken and pretty much meaningless. Downvotes will subtract reputation, but upvotes don’t add to it, only “boosts” do. While I had perpetually negative reputation from that, I didn’t mind, but as soon as it went positive from a single highly-boosted comment, I immediately started dropping back into old mentalities.

      Guess switching over to Lemmy to use Boost might not have been such a bad thing.

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          Wefwef dev here, it’s not calculated client side. post and comment score is in the api response of every user.

          I actually had no idea the Lemmy web client doesn’t display this when I implemented in wefwef

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            1 year ago

            Can we have a talk about that? Please for the love of all that is holy, don’t actually display karma scores in wefwef. Please. :(

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              Imo both sides of this argument are way overblown. If Karma scores affected you that much, positively or negatively, you should be taking a long break from social media and having a chat with a counsellor.

              I don’t mean that as an insult, it really is the kind of thing that only matters if you’ve gone so far terminally online that it’s seriously affecting your mental health.

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                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.