I honestly think some a-holes don’t know that they’re a-holes. Perhaps their parents coddled them or instilled it into them, but I think it’s good they find out that indeed, they are the butthole… (though, they should have a butthole icon or a * added to their user name as a reminder).
Which is basically how karma worked (oversimplified a bit). Whether lemmy does it or not does matter since its federated. Those who wanna karma farm are doing to go to the places that keep track of the karma equivalent, but they're going to post everywhere.
I used Reddit for years and never understood the points. Someone called me out once like I was lying when i asked what Reddit karma was. There’s no monetary association, right? What’s the value?
Or pics being grounds for sob stories and creative writing prompts to get more upvotes on theur shitty pictures. That’s why I unsubbed from r/pics and subbed to /r/nocontextpics. Cool photos, no sob stories.
Oh man, this is something I definitely hope to never see again. I’m so tired of the unbelievable TIFUs, AITAs, and/or OffMyChests with thousands of upvotes that had obviously-fake stories.
The worst one (in recent history) was that TIFU with the student who slept with their professor’s daughter.
Fucking A they were. No one can convince me otherwise. There was a style of writing that became obvious with the writers idiosyncrasies seeping through all the time with some very uncommon phrases and words being used that normal peons simply do not use.
And then there were the writing themes that would create engagement over a week-long period to boot by these same writers.
oh my god all of the generic ask reddit questions please ban anyone that posts the usual fron page of ask reddit or any sex related questions fing 14 year olds
The “well it looks like we were able to recover $100,000 from the crime scene” >> “Sure glad we were able to recover $80,000” >> “Looks like we found $20,000”, etc…. on seemingly every thread involving money was pretty insufferable.
It boosts the comment because of the algorithm. I don’t know if people do it knowingly when commenting “this” or “underrated comment” but it does have an effect.
I feel like the lack of karma system will 100% help in this aspect. No reason to comment/post dumb things since you don’t really get anything with your post/comment is at the top.
Sadly, I think you have significantly overestimated those who do that, as having a "reason" in mind beyond simply having a desire to just blurt it out, which is immediately followed by blurting it out.
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