I noticed my ‘karma’ score dropped significantly today from 1:1 to a random, far lower number. (I’m referring to my account total score.)
Earlier my post score was over 1000 and now it is ~300.
Anyone know why this is? A bug, perhaps?
Edit: judging by the enormously helpful silent downvotes, I’m assuming the karma scores I’m referring to are limited to Voyager (my app of choice).
I’m using Jerboa and it doesn’t show any kind of collective “karma” score. Honestly I’m kinda glad it doesn’t, I was happy to be rid of karma scores when I left Reddit lol
Is ‘karma’ even visible on Lemmy?
Kind of, some of the apps display it but it’s hidden on the website.
Ah, that makes sense. It’s app-specific then.
Appreciate the insight.
It is on Voyager (formerly ‘wefwef’).
There’s no karma in lemmy, just some sites which want to make it a thing and come up with their own algorithms to give some sort of score based on the upvotes and downvotes of your content.
Lemmy, as a whole keeps track of your upvotes and downvotes. There’s no algorithm, this is just a part of all of Lemmy.
Some apps choose to allow you to see it, and some apps don’t. There’s no boogie man that’s out there creating algorithms to try and “make karma a thing”.
My assumption currently is that Lemmy totals your karma over a certain amount of time, e.g a week. So instead of displaying your overall total score, it’s really showing you your score over the past [insert time period, e.g a week].
This is purely guess work but I have noticed it appears to reset as well.
That makes sense. I did notice minor fluctuations before but I only really started posting today so it was more noticeable.
Really I wonder why we need ‘karma’ scores, or visible ones anyway. I understand why upvoting and downvoting posts is useful but having a user karma score just leads to all the karma farming, playing to the gallery to ‘earn points’ that could be harmful to normal conversation on Reddit.
When you start gamifying a system people start treating it like a game and that makes things weird on what should just be a normal discussion forum. In my opinion anyway
It’s useful for quickly identifying whether somebody may be participating in a conversation in bad faith. If somebody starts questioning something you’ve posted somewhere and you see they have -2000 points, you can probably assume they’re not worth entertaining with a reply.
It’s a bug. The total score reported by the API is garbage. Here’s the bug report: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3393
I made an userscript that automatically calculates the score based on all post/comment scores, and the one reported by the API has literally nothing to do with the sum of all of them.
Memmy on iOS shows some numbers next to my name on my profile page but I don’t give a shit what they mean so I didn’t really pay much attention to them. No clue if they’ve fluctuated
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