I think we're all familiar with the Karma system on Reddit. Do you think Lemmy should have something similar? Because I can see cases for and against it.
For: a way to tracking quality contributions by a user, quantifying reputation. Useful to keep new accounts from spamming communities.
Against: Often not a useful metric, can be botted or otherwise unearned (see u/spez), maybe we should have something else?
we could prevent spam and low effort posts if whe had rules like "x amount of karma to post" allthough its more of a burden for new users to post if its set too high and right now, there is no need for such a system.
at that point i think its better to leave it as it is and introduce an improved karma like system in the future i guess.