Lemmy’s design is focused on quality content by ditching the Karma farmers and addicts. No more chasing upvotes—people here actually focus on real value instead of feeding the ego.

  • Skavau@lemm.ee
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    16 hours ago

    This may not be an inherently bad thing given that low karma accounts tend to be trolls.

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          7 hours ago

          I call that negative karma. Low karma is 0-200. 200 because that is a limit that at least some subs would use to limit new accounts from posting.

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      14 hours ago

      I always like forum setups where you had limited posting privileges until you’d had a couple of posts. Usually, they’d have an introduction category where you could post, and then comment on some other users’ posts, to get your post or reputation count high enough to unlock the rest of the board.

      Most Lemmy sites are small enough to have a local introduction community or other ‘free’ communities for newbies to dip their toes and acclimate. They’d be good places to centralize posts on how all of this works, too.

      Wouldn’t scale to large servers, though.

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      16 hours ago

      Good moderation eliminates trolls pretty quickly. Admins are incentivized to respond to users’ concerns rather than a profit motive. Some communities do have a minimum account age for certain actions, and some instances require a real email address and IP address to join/participate.

      Trolls are bots are rare on Lemmy. They are the norm on reddit.

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        16 hours ago

        The traffic on Reddit is massive for highly populated subreddits. And these subreddits that restrict low karma account activities aren’t doing it for any profit motive.

        I understand Lemmy isn’t really big enough for this to be a concern here.

        • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          15 hours ago

          If/when it does get big enough, what would be a good solution? It would be possible to do the same as Reddit