Lemmy's design is focused on quality content by ditching the Karma farmers and addicts. No more chasing upvotes—people here actually focus on real value instead of feeding the ego.

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 8 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

low Karma accounts can post in Lemmy as opposed to Reddit

But should they?

One of the things I miss about reddit (and slashdot before that) was that if you got downvoted/downmodded a lot in a short amount of time, it would tell you to slow down (, cowboy). It helped to limit the damage when someone would go on a troll spree before they got banned.

Some subreddits did implement a "you must have x karma to post" rule, or account age, which I wasn't always a fan of, especially if it was karma within a certain subreddit. I understand the logic, that it was intended to make people read the community before posting, but I'm not sure if it hit the mark. But it did limit brand-new spam accounts, which are already here on lemmy.

[–] wittycomputer@feddit.org 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I believe it's an unhealthy habit, silencing unpopular people. Some of us low profile oddballs like to share our thoughts too

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

That's true, but it's gotta be balanced by limiting the fallout of extreme cases on other users

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

I do like the slow down, cowboy think and I'm pretty sure reddit had that extremely early on as well

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Some communities use a "santabot" to auto-ban accounts with more downvotes than upvotes. I've never seen it happen to someone who didn't deserve it.