I like the transition away from prioritizing comments over questions.

Submitted ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨favrion@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩

On Reddit, my karma was always weighted more on the question side than on the comment side. I felt bad for not being a valuable contributor to people’s lives rather than being selfish and always asking things for myself. Lemmy has gotten rid of that point system so now I feel like I can feel free to ask as many questions as I need without having to balance my karma. Also, I have noticed that I participate so much more on this platform than I ever did on Reddit.

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sj_zero ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It's surprising how much just keeping track can mess with behavior, eh?
- Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it meme
  
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  - sj_zero ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    10/10 futurama reference
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
My problem is that I’m not a poster.

I just don’t think of things and then think “oh, I should share this with the world”. If I have a question, I tend to enjoy the process of finding the answer unless it’s game related, so thinking of crowd sourcing an answer rarely occurs to me.

But! While I’m less likely to run across things on lemmy that trigger my gush button because my interests are niche-ish, I tend to be willing to put in effort into such things.

Same with things that trigger my curiosity; if I don’t have info that’s useful, and I want that info, chances are I’ll come back and share what I find and put effort into it.

Lemmy hasn’t caught up with the population sizes of my niche interests enough for my old drive to help or discover to get triggered often though. It will, I’m sure, but it’ll take time now that a solid user base has formed that will spread awareness of the platform organically.

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Glemek@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Asking questions is valuable to an online community though. People need to ask questions so that others can answer, and plenty of them (often myself included) won’t post questions they have and will just search around hoping someone else already did.

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- chronically_crazy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’ve really enjoyed the questions asked here, and I’ve found the communities feedback to be invaluable.
  
  And not all of those questions have been asked by me.
  
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density@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
hate to break it to you but you have 1512 reputation points

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- favrion@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Is that good or bad?
  
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  - density@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    idk it was more karma than I ever had. always toiling away in the comments of less popular subreddits.
    
    Currently I have 1737 rep points. It says I joined a month ago and you joined 3 weeks ago so I think you are beating me by a bit. I guess your strategy is working! :D
    
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starman@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
As you can see in the docs there is comment_score and post_score attached to every user. But you can always decide to not care about it, and I strongly recommend that

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Crow@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I had hundreds of thousands of karma on Reddit. I keep forgetting that’s here too. I stopped caring a while ago anyhow.

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iAmTheTot@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This is tracked btw its just that your instance of Lemmy is deciding not to display it. You have 1512 reputation.

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- favrion@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  How do I make that public?
  
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  - speck@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Why do you need to make it public?
    
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  - iAmTheTot@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Switch to an instance that displays it, like kbin. I don't think you can on lemmy.
    
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