What other less-toxic system could work instead of karma?
https://lemmy.world/post/590386
What other less-toxic system could work instead of karma? - Lemmy.world
Hey! Thanks to the whole Reddit mess, I’ve discovered the fediverse and its
increidible wonders and I’m lovin’ it :D I’ve seen another post about karma, and
after reading the comments, I can see there is a strong opinion against it
(which I do share). I’d love to hear your opinions, what other method/s would
you guys implement? If any ofc
That real question is, what problem are we trying to solve? Then we can go from there.
In wondering about that myself. What is the problem?
Individual users having some sort of reputation is useful. I always thought it was handy on Reddit to be able to distinguish people I happened to disagree with from actual trolls. The latter always had pretty high negative karma scores, and it was good to know that there was no point in engaging with them.
Or you could have a system where trolls and bad people are simply banned in stead of needing users to figure it out themselves
How would you find those bad actors?
They get reporterd and the admins ban them. Simple as that. And the same holds as for the rest of the fediverse, servers that don’t moderate well will get defederated.
On Reddit bad actors can just run around unhindered, here not so much.
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