So. Reddit has "karma" and "CQS" scores. Is there some similar metric on Lemme? Not that I ever really cared about those on reddit, I'm just curious.

There seems to be an attitude percentage (ratio of upvotes and downvotes), but no one cares about it.

some instances don't even allow downvotes (or show them)

Piefed seems to create a percentage based on a user's upvote/downvote ratio but I don't think there's anything more than that pointless, misleading and unintuitive metric.

On the PieFed side (not sure if the same on Lemmy), you probably don't want to accumulate a disproportionate amount of downvotes from others. That can result in little 'hazard signs' next to your ID in thread-views.

No and yes. Most people don't like karma farming and all that stuff. So I think the "Karma" value is absent from the regular user interface. Instead it shows how long you've been here and how many posts and comments you made. But at the same time some other software calculates your "Karma" value, I think some phone apps display it as well. And some moderation tools factor in votes on a user. So a clear yes and no. But there isn't any Karma competition here.

Small point of clarification: Piefed is not Lemmy. Both, along with Kbin, Mbin, etc., are often referred to as the "Threadiverse".

But yes, Piefed does have a reputation score. Lemmy I don't believe does.

/kbin had (and by extension: Mbin has) got reputation points

While the op posted to a piefed community, their home instance is Lemmy.

Note the other comments here addressing that issue.

I see what you're saying, but I think a big part of why the visible score doesn't matter so much is because someone else has to deliberately look for it. Most people don't seem to bother looking at other user's profile cards.

AFAIK it correlates to upvotes as well. They seem to 'scrub' the effects of the downvotes from the ratio.

As someone who upvotes & downvotes freely, it's never been a problem for me. At my 'worst,' I might have once temporarily dropped to the mid-80's or so. Still, that's just my experience. We all have our own concerns...

There are two score on piefed :

• attitude : the ration of your upvote and downvote
• reputation : the vote you receive

Most of user have an average attitude score around 70%. People who really downvote have an average score around 30%. Once it reach a threeshold, it will remove your ability to downvote.

And to counter karma farming, post in meme community provide 0 reputation.

As far i know, there is no karma farming. They are tool for mod and admin to help them in creating communities and remove abrasive people.

So imo, there is no credit social score because there is plenty tool where you don't have to use downvote as : keyword filter, community & user blocklist. Its only effect, the score system, is removing your ability to downvote once you reach a threshold. That's up to mod team, if they want to keep people that downvote a lot. And it improves the whole community.

Edit : typo.

The hasard signs is based on your reputation, which is basically the same as Reddit karma, i.e. the sub of (upvotes - downvotes). IIRC some optional instance settings also decrease reputation (posting to ”low-quality” communities).

A negative reputation score will display those warnings, so someone who gets downvoted a lot. The actual reputation score may be hidden from normal users though.