• Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I don’t actually understand the purpose of karma on Reddit, beyond some sort of metric to feel good about yourself. It’s literally just a number and nothing else.

    I’ve seen some people try to devalue what someone said because of “low karma”, so I’d say it’s a good thing Lemmy doesn’t have a karma system.

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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      3 hours ago

      Karma has become a part of a measure to determine if an account is a human non-troll.

      The first step in ban evasion is to create a new account and continue doing what you’ve done before. By requiring an account to be a certain age along with a certain amount of karma, it makes sure the account is less likely to be a ban evader.