One of the things platforms use to keep us coming back and investing more of our time in building their site for them, is Internet Points. They don't do anything, but we still crave them.
On Reddit, these Internet Points are, of course, called "karma"
In moving on from Reddit, I'm burning over 80k karma.
It feels fine. I mean, it has no real value, and bots can scrounge up that amount of karma in an afternoon, but it still represents a sizable time investment.
How much are you burning, and how do you feel about it?
I feel manipulated by the karma. It has no value and yet I care when i get downvoted. It's a huge warning sign to get off reddit and into a healthier community.
I had like 20000 karma on some previous reddit account i deleted a few years back. Current one has 3000 karma or so. Because I post a lot, and I wrote things people agree with usually. But it's a echo chamber, and once I start to limit myself to writing things that are "safe" from a karma point of view, I'm literally just supporting the entire karma system.
It's something very Chinese about these points. They have this social system where citizens have a score, and if they get too low, they can't get loans and whatnot. Pretty much what the show black mirror was showing, and China now has it.
200k+ comment karma, from 75,000 comments. I've run PowerDeleteSuite, but it hasn't quite got everything. I think I need to use the GDPR request csv files to get the comments that don't display in the profile, but I'm looking for something that will automate this.
Make sure you do a GDPR data request first. The csv files contain a lot of stuff (although they don't contain any associated accounts they believe you have), in particular there are links to every comment. Your profile doesn't show every single comment you've ever made, and if you just delete your account they will delete the user but leave the comments up.
So you have to do it carefully. PowerDeleteSuite is good, however as I say it only has access to what's on your profile - many older comments with lower karma will be missed.
It should be straightforward to use the csv files to extract the links and edit + delete from there, in the same way that PSD does it from the profile, but I'm still looking for something that does that.
I have ~5100 karma, I've never really cared about the total karma amount but it is fun to see a comment or post be upvoted. They feel like social points and that makes me think of "that" episode of Black Mirror, and as @[email protected] said, China has implemented that. It's crazy.
But as I always say, in the end, the people have the power. Always.
I think "local" karma makes more sense and I'd much rather have a point system than get hundreds of comments saying "I agree" because that's annoying af.
PowerDeleteSuited my 10 year old acct history with ~650k comment karma. Took half a dozen runs. Not deleting the account bc I don't want that username recycled but otherwise done. Actually kind of nice to move on and back to a smaller but more committed userbase.
I've never really been much of a poster, so I've only managed to earn roughly 6.5k karma (shared across a few accounts) in my almost a decade in Reddit.
While it feels nice to have that feeling of validation upon seeing my response being invited, I didn't really feel going out of my way to be more active for some reason.
Like a few thousand across five accounts? I had closer to 10k on an old account that I deleted entirely a few years ago, after redacting all my comments. Always been more of a lurker than an active user.
Such a waste of time. This was what I needed to make healthier choices. Less time spent scrolling, less time commenting. Lemmy is my methodone right now.
Not my account, but my bot, thebenshapirobot, just reached 600,000 karma in about a year and a half. I was always hoping it'd get to a million karma while trolling Ben Shapiro. The bot is currently off as part of the blackout, and frankly I have no idea if the API changes will affect it because I haven't bothered to read them.
347k. I care about it as much as any imaginary number you can make go higher in a game - once you lose interest in the game, the numbers don't matter any more.
About 30k in karma. I didn't use Reddit much on desktop but was addicted to Apollo. Every time I had more than a few seconds I would take out my phone and browse it. I think ultimately this will be a good thing. The quality of the posts and people in a lot of the subs I frequented had taken a nosedive the last couple of years, and others had very poor or biased moderation.
I discovered reddit not so long ago, since I am not a social kind of person I mainly lurked there for memes, info and news about my hobbies and humor in general. Never had the crave for karma points (or Internet points in general) but I can understand it.
Posted a comment about world of warcraft that reached almost 5000 karma (i really don't know why, but as I said I was not into the reddit mechanics, so maybe I am the one that cannot get the point). I think it's quite a lot for only one comment!
Honestly, I think karma, points, upvotes and the like should all be invisible. It's functionality for bringing specific posts or comments to the top is useful, but the number itself serves no purpose being displayed to the user.
I had 9k on my recent account, I got most of it from one post on a drama sub. I was mostly a lurker that changed accounts periodically whenever I felt paranoid, was on reddit for 7 years.
Highest "karma required" I've seen is, I believe, 100. That means the significant part of my burned karma is after the decimal point in 80.4k (or whatever the fuck, not checking)
Exactly, it's just a number. I'm so glad there is no global karma on Lemmy. Voting on single posts on their isolated merits is much more meaningful.