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Lemmy doesn't have karma farming because it doesn't have karma.
Accounts earn their reputation based on name recognition, not some artificial score.
Yet that’s all karma is. And I tap on a member’s name and I can see their “score” here.
Believe it or not, some do place value on quantity, and some do so without checking quality.
This might just be a feature specific to the app you're using; it isn't displayed publicly on web, at least on any instance I have an account with.
Are you sure? I just tried a regular browser and went to Lemmy.world, tapped a random username, and was able to see their post/comment count, and tried a second app and found the same.
E: you might be confusing my comment about score with a total number of points of upvotes. That isn’t what I meant. I was only suggesting that to some people the total comment and post score might equate to karma.
You trying to make me delete my acct?
Here's what I see for you in a browser:
Here's what I see for myself:
No karma. No points. Just raw post count and comment count.
Oh, we can see post / comment count, but that's a meaningless statistic, no? The whole point of karma - the whole thing that makes karma toxic - is that it's based on farming upvotes; it's why Reddit is a cesspool of low-effort meme comments that're engineered to gather those upvotes. Post / comment numbers can't really be hidden anyway, unless you're also proposing hiding a user's comment history... you could get a quick rough total just by checking how many pages of posts and comments there were and doing some quick multiplication.
Are you talking about looking at a user profile and seeing the number of posts and comments they made?
Yep.
Karma is the ratio of upvotes vs downvotes you get. It has nothing to do with the number of posts or comments you make.
But you don't see those numbers when you're looking at a post or comment, so it isn't like Reddit karma.
That is true. You do have to tap/click through to see it. But those numbers are there.
But why do the numbers you can see on Lemmy matter?