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Karma? The system that encouraged people to make the most milquetoast posts to appeal as many users as possible? Karma farming heavily reduced quality on reddit.

No thank you. We need some sort of encouragement but karma is not it.

The Alexandrite front end for Lemmy has a feature called "Vibe Check" that shows a user's positive or negative score in each community they post within. It is a nice check for spotting trolls quickly, or even if a person "trolls" in one community but not others. If you scroll down their profile past around the first ~30 comments/posts (Alexandrite is infinite scrolling), it will score the vibe check on however many comments/posts are loaded which is usually 100 loaded when past this ~30 mark.

IDK, if you want to post, you post. I don't feel that encouragement is really needed.

Karma is not a good system.

I do agree however that additional features to encourage posting and engagement would be good for Lemmy.

I like contributing to a community and see it climb the ladder https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active

I don't miss karma being a thing (and people focusing on growing it by pleasing as many as possible, instead of focusing on content) but I'm also past the age of getting good/bad grades for doing my homework or for participating in class ;)

I'm pretty sure introducing karma will boost low effort reddit-like posts. And those don't need any encouragement, imho.