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ā€œKarma farmingā€ isnā€™t even possible on Lemmy. Thereā€™s literally no total of up- and downvotes displayed anywhere. And having a meme artificially pushed to the top without reason seems to be nonsensical to me.

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Itā€™s a kbin account, we have reputation points here, similar to Reddit karma. Even if they post to a lemmy community from kbin, upvotes and boosts will give them karma

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Oh yes, I totally overlooked that. Shouldā€™ve known that when you said ā€œboostā€.

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There was no point to it on Reddit either but that obviously did not stop people.

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Yeah, it always baffled me. At least with memes, etc. It makes sense with political content, for example. But memes? Those internet points must really trigger the dopamine.

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Someone coming from reddit that doesnā€™t understand how lemmy works? Will it be a self correcting problem once they realize thereā€™s absolutely nothing to be gained by shilling posts? Will be interesting to see how this plays out. On a related note, does anyone know if you block a user are their votes still included in the totals you see for posts and comments?

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Kbin has karma, OP is posting from kbin to lemmy

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