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Why Lemmy is so superior to Reddit: No Karma, Just Value Content (feddit.org)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

EDIT: I know there are upvotes and downvotes, but the problem with Reddit is you can't post in most communities if your karma or reputation is bad. This is a big problem because herd mentality prevails there and if ypu have unpopular opinions you're basically censored.

Lemmy isn't designed to milk ypur dopamine with notifications every 10 upvotes, so you focus more on posting valuable cont instead of farming for approval and upvotes.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Maybe. They might also mean you're an idiot.

Slashdot used to have a multidimensional voting system that would allow you to up or down vote something based on whether it was funny/insightful/correct, etc (can't remember the dimension). I wish we had something like that. Sometimes it would be useful to mark a comment as "funny, but also wrong"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Welcome: Quarkvotes
Up, down, charm, strange, top, bottom

Up/down = Usefulness or relation to topic
Charm/strange = Agree/accurate or not
Top/bottom = Love/Hate

I vote you up-charm-top, btw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Not a bad set! I would add something related to "funny".

Also, separating agree (opinion) from accurate (factual) would be nice. But I guess you gotta keep it somewhat simple.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

I had a discussion about using the Slashdot style voting rather than the Reddit style.

It not only has the additional tag, it has the max "upvote" display limit of 5, and the display code will expand and promote the best rated comments, while hiding the garbage.

I think comments on most forums would benefit from there being no 'big upvote' number to chase, as well as making the highest rated comments in a thread of say, 200, more obvious.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, it was only up or down, but you could also choose to add a descriptor, funny, insightful, informative, flamebait, troll, and a few others: https://slashdot.org/faq#meta3

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Right, thanks. Still a super useful system, IMO, though I'm sure better versions are possible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I turn my phone sideways and then my upvote is in a different dimension.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Maybe. They might also mean you're an idiot.

If I am wrong sombody will generally probide a rebuttal tho but deff happens