Karma system in the official forums?

[Kolsykol]

Reddit is long known to be a place where the majority opinion rules all, even when it is wrong. A karma system, just like modern SNS platforms, does nothing to make a community better; all it does, is making a community more niche, as the karma system marginalizes people who don't agree with the community's "mainstream" opinion, and encourages back-patting among people with the same opinion. Eventually, the community becomes one where only the mainstream opinion exists.

A karma system also doesn't distinguish between karma from humor versus karma from presenting useful information and thoughtful discourse. This means people who believe in karma points may end up trusting bad opinion from a completely uninformed source who just happens to have high karma from humor (and oftentimes bad humor borderlining on internet bullying).

Having more likes/upvotes doesn't make one right. We already know karma systems are better at building niche communities than at building inclusive communities.

Now that you mentioned the humor that's something I didn't think of until now but it actually does make sense too.
So much of it is just dismissing people by being shitty towards them then hiding under the guise of '' it's just a joke bro '', basically acting like you don't care about anything yet spending hours making fun of people for caring about something is seen as a virtue.
You don't even need to make an actual argument, you just need to act like you're above it all and mock people.
To some extent you see this on this forum too but people don't have as much power to shut other people down as they do on Reddit.

It doesn't help either that a lot of the people who spend the most time on social media and more universal forum websites also have a tendency to be perpetually online.
Like I care a lot about censorship of art, but good luck having a reasonable discussion about that on Reddit or basically anywhere ( but especially Reddit ).
People bring so much baggage in from e-drama they just expect everyone to know about or be in on and a part of.
As if it's impossible to care about something and it not being due to alterior motives.

But hey it's easier to just strawman and downvote someone to signal to others then mock them and bathe in the likes and circlejerk each other.

My entire sense of self-worth is based on these likes, so if you could all give me the updoots that'd really help thanks.

Legends say that once you reach a milion likes you win at life.
I will aid you in this journey.