I’ve been trying to create communities that are missing and filling them with content as much as I can. That’s obviously not scalable as one person, so I try to encourage others via commenting.
Any thoughts around the idea of points (Similar to Karma) and seeing weekly/monthly ranking of content creating users?
Light hearted competition, and encourages contributing > lurking.
If you don’t like the idea, please share your suggestions. I’m just trying to think of ways to encourage contribution and capitalize on the hot iron we have going on now. :)
The last thing I would want is for Lemmy to turn into the karma whoring shithole we just left.
Karma should definitely be used as a metric to get rid of troublemakers, but hidden from regular users. However, I would argue that without a public display of karma there’s also no incentive to farm downvotes, so maybe we could stop using it all together?
The way I see it, we are here to enjoy ourselves and discuss topics with people all around the world. We don’t need a metric or competition for that.