Spyke
lemmy.ml

No offense, but I don't like this. Not having Karma is one of the main advantages lemmy has. Karma sucks.

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Yorureply
lemmy.ml

all good, I just made it for fun anyways 🫡

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Hal-5700Xreply
lemmy.world

People can vote. So you do have karma, but you can't see it.

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Yes/no, clearly it can be calculated, but it's not like it's a hidden value. Also becomes a little skewed given that some instances have downvote turned off entirely.

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Yorureply
lemmy.ml

well, it doesn't have to be called "Karma", it's called "Score" in Lemmy's API. I'm probably going to rename it.

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Schlemmyreply
lemmy.ml

Yes, but people will be starting to react or act to get 'score'. It incentivises certain behaviour.

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You have to install the extension to see your karma score. Don't install it. Problem gone.

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strawberryreply
artemis.camp

afaik score is just per post, not a cumulative thing visible on ur account

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Nerd02reply

No I think there's a total score that is saved in your account but is hidden from the frontend

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Yorureply
lemmy.ml

I just noticed it only works for lemmy.ml and lemmy.world, my fault. Will be publishing the fix in a bit. I was a little too excited XD

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lemmy.world

I don't see the point of downvoting this. You have to install the extension to see your karma score. So I don't see what's the big deal is. Clam down, people.

EDIT My biggest problem is this add-on needs access your data for all websites. Why not Lemmy sites only?

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because there are too many lemmeny instances, cannot possibly add them all

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lemmy.ml

How do you tally it? I've seen lots of discussions about guesses about how the reddit system works.

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Yorureply
lemmy.ml

I run an API request on loop until there are no posts/comments left. Then I somply add up their score. Sorry for the late response btw

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lemmy.ml

Ko problem. Ok, so just the sum of all up- and downvotes. No dicounting for viral posts, etc.

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Yorureply
lemmy.ml

I didn't really understand but it's basically (all upvoted) - (all downvotes)

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Ok. Reddit has some really elaborate system where the first upvotes gives 1 karma, then after upvote 500 or something, each only gives 0.5 karma or something, etc.

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Thanks! Lmk if you have any suggestions :D

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Lemmy Karma Calculator – An extension I wrote to display how much score (Karma) you have! | Spyke