Disagree, cake days are only a fun “easter egg”, and karma doesn’t really exist on Lemmy as far as I can tell.
Did Reddit invent cake days? I thought that was a Digg thing.
The only thing that would even make sense to bring imo is a leveling system of sorts, straight from the forums of old.
I suggested such a thing a couple days ago on asklemmy and was roundly shut down. Badges, levels, whatever that would denote longevity and “service” to the communities.
Nope.
how do we reward original content?
Toothpaste.
The official lemmy interfaces don’t track those things.
The official lemmy interfaces don’t track those things.
Cake Days are shown in the default web interface. Like for this user who posted further down in this thread:
I didn’t think karma existed on Lemmy? Or maybe it was removed in ann update?
It exists, your total just isn’t visible to anyone but admins.
its completely public via non-lemmy systems https://moist.catsweat.com/u/@[email protected]
Isn’t it worthless though? I mean I could award myself karma on my servers communities or just hack it up.
no. Its great for catching trolls.
it literally hurts no one for existing
Interesting. Your instance is from another platform, right? Is it Piefed or mbin?
Is this just basically karma or what does it mean?
yep, im coming from an mbin instance. its basically karma… upvotes - downvotes.
it really helps identifying spammers/trolls quickly.
Does it persist through comment/post removal/deletion?
Thanks. I love that we’ve got several active alternatives we can communicate with on the threadiverse now. I like Lemmy but I hope they continue to proliferate.
Users’ aggregate post and comment score has been entirely removed from the Lemmy API (as of version 0.19.0 if I remember correctly). It is not easily accessible to anyone, including admins. You could write a script to sum a user’s aggregate score.
This pleases me greatly. This is the ethos.
Oh I guess I missed that update. Thanks for the correction.
Well, in that your upvote total and ratio can be calculated, at least. Does it actually do anything, or can it do anything, like it did on reddit? Subs having minimum karma thresholds, that sort of thing? If not, it’s truly meaningless and can be safely ignored by everyone.
That’s what I do.
Not sure if I should downvote this popular opinion in the unpopular opinion sub or upvote it, for more people to see this wholesome take.
I had to look at the community rules to see what to do as well:
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it’s something that’s widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
What is the protocol for when I don’t have enough data to assess how popular an opinion is and I want to spread and support it to make it more popular of an opinion?
welp, i decided not to do anything 😅
Or we all hope Reddit continues as it is, not as a hotbed of original content like it was 10+ years ago, but as a place to rehost content found on other sites, and watch it fade into obscurity so better-run platforms can fill the void
All social media is just reposting from other social media sites.
Ouroboros
The only thing I miss here are active niche communities. Other than that, it’s so much better than Spez’s data vacuuming service.
Cake day is cute
Yes. I mean, just because your stupid neighbour celebrates their birthday, it doesn’t mean you would stop celebrating your birthday just to be different.
Counterpoint: birthdays (and cake days, and many anniversaries) are a pointless celebration.
Payton Oswalt had a pretty good plan on that: https://youtu.be/sbJs-Ul1QFo
NO HAPPINESS ALLOWED! GET BACK TO THE COAL MINES!
How are they pointless if they bring people joy? I know there are exceptions but I’m pretty sure people generally really like birthdays…
I will need an explanation of this one. Are you saying that people don’t like birthdays?
Well, maybe he means that you should celebrate actual achievements instead of dates that just happen every year. The YouTube video he linked didn’t tell to completely stop celebrating birthdays. Just limit it to a total of 20 birthdays for most people (you get more if you live really old).
What if you’re working the same 9-5 job five days a week and it pays you well and you’re happy yet you don’t have any new achievements
Just that once you hit a certain age….its no longer fun to be reminded
Have we really gotten to the point of being demeaning to people simply because they celebrate their fucking birthday?
I think it’s important for developers to stay active within the community and try to understand how the community uses the tools available and what additions or changes are desired or would be beneficial. Obviously people disagree about what those things are at times, but I think with patience and empathy we can iterate ideas and get to better places.
I see people posting more and more news on Lemmy and I enjoy that, but it does make the need for tools that fight disinformation. Maybe that’s the source-checker bot (feels like a stopgap to me) or maybe that’s a combination of new ui and api features that draw from Twitter’s community fact-checking and how some instances are use bias-checkers.
Moderation tools are always in need of improvement too.
Hey I even think silly shit like emoji reactions and awards have a place for people that prefer less verbal forms of interaction but still want nuance or whimsy.
I call my real life birthday “cake day.” Because I hate my birthday. But I do like cake.
I think it would be cool if you couldn’t see the upvote/downvote score until you voted
I just disable vote counts from being displayed. I don’t care how popular or unpopular some comment is.
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How would Lemmy reward original content?
Hamburgers or tacos.
Hamberders.
Bacon or we riot.
So you’re in favor of the Reddit2 proposition then…
Unclear on what that is…
Reddit used to be overrun with mentions of bacon
I think they meant beans.
Beans and beans and beans and beans and beans.
If rather not think about that.
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When something is posted, automatically search to see if that exact thing has been posted before. If it has, then deduct a percent of votes, with the percent increasing each time that exact thing has been posted before. Say, if it’s been posted once before, then you deduct 1%, if it’s been posted twice, then 2%, and so forth. Feel free to adjust this math in a way that makes the most sense.
If something is legitimately excellent, or if enough people have forgotten it to upvote the repost, then reposts can still make their way to the frontpage.
Otherwise, repeat posts will naturally wither away, while encouraging original content.
And I bet that won’t long
