If we don't have fake internet points, then how will we know what to think? Won't somebody think of the points‽ 😭
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2025
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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And we should keep it that way. As soon as you can derive value from your profile karma and/or it means something, it'll break any sense of earnest discussion some are trying to have in the first place.
Look at Reddit: any serious thread is peppered with might-be-funny one-liners in the hopes of catching some upvotes. This makes those threads harder to read through, although it does make for funny AI summary results.
It's not just off topic banter to increase karma though. It's also reposting old memes, jokes and stories that did well in the past to farm that sweet karma. Throw in some copied top-level comments too and some subreddits are basically perpetually living in déjà vu.
Let's not try to aim for that.
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I've been able to exchange some of my points in the Lemmy Store for a rub on tattoo.
rub on
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Even more fake here because you can turn off down votes
I'm pretty sure you can do that on individual subreddits as well. Do you mean on an instance wide level?
Admins have the option to disable it on a per instance basis.
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Who will be the final boss in this battle?
I'm not following you. I see your previous comment was in a thread about video game bosses though?
It’s ok, it was a bad and unrelated joke.
I was just suggesting that the Lemmy system was better than the Reddit system, but that there might be a better system than this.
Lol that's an interesting thought. I wonder what it would be like if instead of simply giving upvotes and downvotes, you could rate every comment/post on a scale of 1-10 or something. It probably wouldn't work at all, but maybe there is some kind of system out there that would work better in the future.
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Whoever has the most points on Lemmy has to read the credits in a style of Clive Anderson's choosing.
Whomever gets the most votes per month has to pay a share of the instance bill for the month
Now this is democracy
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I just disable "show votes" in settings and that's it.
Ooh, so they can also be invisible internet points.
That just blew my mind, I didn't even realize that was a setting.
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I hope Lemmy's internet points never become a thing people view as important. The way people act on Reddit to get a handful of up votes is embarrassing.
Is never counted as a total right? As long as it stays that way it shouldn't.
I've seen some front ends for Lemmy total it.
Yeah it exists in the metadata, so certain front ends can display it and other platforms like Mbin and PieFed show it as a reputation score or something like that.
I think the way that Lemmy handles it is perfect, there's no reason to display the cumulative score and it definitely acts as a barrier to free and open discussion because people start censoring themselves and judging other users by their profile rather than the things they actually say.
I don't think it is in Tesseract or Alexandrite but I feel like I vaguely recall Jerboa, the mobile app, having it.
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For those that don't know this is in reference to Reddit's process of "vote fuzzing". Most explanations online explain it as altering the votes to prevent things like rigging the vote or an individual going to someone else's page and down voting everything they've posted or commented. I think in reality it's more obtuse and erratic. I don't know if the level of "fuzz" varies based off the age of the post or the total number of votes.
I'll sell you mine. Hell, I might even trade some points for a block of your finest cheese.
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