Personally I think not having karma limits is nice currently! I understand why they were used but grinding karma as a lurker on reddit was frustrating.

  • Communist@beehaw.org
    151·
    2 years ago

    I actually support awards here with the option of hiding them, i think it’d be a good, relatively ethical way to monetize lemmy.

    • Drew Got No Clue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      It could be in cool (in the future) to have a donate button instead, so to support users who are posting great content

      On the other hand, donating to lemmy should be separate (the way it is now) and not a cut of those donations to users

      • NotaCat@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        11·
        2 years ago

        I always thought it would be cool if awards meant something, like a donation to an NGO of the user’s choosing (from a list of 20 or so to reduce complexity). Lemmy could be one of the options but not the only option (like it was for Reddit) that the money would go to. I feel like more people would buy and give awards if that were the case.

    • gronapa@lemmy.fmhy.mlOP
      5·
      2 years ago

      I felt the move of making reddit silver a real award was a big shift. Newer users don’t even get why reddit silver was a thing.

      I do like the idea of optional visibility - awards certain;y don’t have to be bloat/bad.

      • Melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        2 years ago

        Reddit Silver being an award just completely stole all the magic out of it. It was a cute little memey way to show support and make fun of Reddit Golf and then it got turned into a way to put more money in Reddit’s pocket :c

    • irrationalpanda@reddthat.com
      5·
      2 years ago

      It’d be kinda cool to have a ‘$s donated in this comments name’ counter or something. But yeah 100 different sprites/icons on a comment was visual gore.

    • autumnplains@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      Yeah that’s a really good point. Maybe a portion of the award funds for a given post could go to that post’s creator’s server and a portion to a pooled fund for all servers/servers reaching capacity?

      Of course this and any other ideas re monitising should be carefully thought out re perverse incentives 😬