On Reddit, my karma was always weighted more on the question side than on the comment side. I felt bad for not being a valuable contributor to people’s lives rather than being selfish and always asking things for myself. Lemmy has gotten rid of that point system so now I feel like I can feel free to ask as many questions as I need without having to balance my karma. Also, I have noticed that I participate so much more on this platform than I ever did on Reddit.

  • @Glemek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•2 years ago

    Asking questions is valuable to an online community though. People need to ask questions so that others can answer, and plenty of them (often myself included) won’t post questions they have and will just search around hoping someone else already did.

    • @chronically_crazy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      I’ve really enjoyed the questions asked here, and I’ve found the communities feedback to be invaluable.

      And not all of those questions have been asked by me.

  • @Crow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    I had hundreds of thousands of karma on Reddit. I keep forgetting that’s here too. I stopped caring a while ago anyhow.

  • @subnuggurat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    In your own personal opinion, what’s the motivation for keeping an eye on karma? How would the experience change if you didn’t have the possibility of racking up points/karma at all?

    • FavrionOPEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      My sense of community involvement depended on my karma count. I didn’t want to be perceived as a person consistently asking for answers rather than contributing them. I guess without karma that preoccupation goes away.

      • @subnuggurat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        Thanks for replying. I personally enjoy it more without the personal ranking system. I think it stopped a lot of people from contributing for fear of public (and evident) disapproval while giving some people motivation to flood the site with low quality content just for the points. I still like the up/downvotes though but as a metric for the content, not the user.

      • @Zaktor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        Post karma and comment karma don’t map to questions and answers though. Maybe in some very specific subs posting=questions, but most post karma is posting links and memes.