I could swear to God I never hit the 10 mark over there. In here as long as it isn’t a “^this” I get 10-20, and solidly hit the 50 mark if I comment something truly meaningful.

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    1 year ago

    Something important to realize is, upvotes attributed to a profile was once designed to place profiles on a trust scale. A person with more upvotes in general would simply, and naturally, be more listened and trust than a person with low or even negative upvotes.

    The problem is our brain can easily fall in the trap which has been used by marketing for decades now : the reward circuit.

    Thus people prone to make a lot of money abused that, and even raised the problem to an other level with bots and competition. They did so because it creates addiction. And what addiction does create ? Spending money. So you really don’t want profile accumulated upvotes on Lemmy.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe the solution is to show that “something” (that on Reddit was known as karma) only to other users and never ever to yourself 😄