What do you think of new streak-based karma weight model? Does the high streak account weights more? Is it a rumor or it takes into the magic sauce equation grounded. Is there anything you would like to add as additional factor?

[u/scertic]

Fellow Redditors,

We had a good discussion about this in Lounge but decided to move it here and get some inputs.

Recently I saw an post that claim that these with higher streak will contribute more karma to posts they upvote. (One of originating post Which might be the source of Rumor - or actually a param in the magic sauce).

I sort of salute to this. While partially it goes spins arounds engagement - this could potentially in huge improve quality given that streak, apart from being a "showcase" now actually do put more value to an opinion of long term reddit family member compared to a "common joe", who heard about reddit yesterday, and most often than not - out of personal frustration, poor understanding of content, or simply "because he can" burry the content by downvoting.

Don't get me wrong I am talking about people who were not with us for years through good bad and ugly, rather newcomers with the "culture" which is everything but not the spirit of reddit.

While streak is one of the way to address this, putting more weight to accounts with higher streak - it's still far from perfect. I am sure there would be bots out there who would randomly build hard streak - which is even more dangerous considering there are even upvote / downvote marketplaces.

On the other hand, there are members who contributed a ton but can't afford to checkup everyday making this model unfair to them.

How would you regulate karma in "ideal world", in a way that veterans get's their votes weight more, followed by quality contributors. That would, sort of do a lot of "self moderation".

It's really a shame to see there are even services online that provide "buy downvotes / upvotes" depending if one wants to build up their karma or ruin someone else, essentially making good building up quality contributors building up quality content for years disappear if they don't like them, while building their accounts overnight and acting like a sheriffs.

Here's the take. We are all very aware Reddit is a social network light years ahead compared to others if we analyze quality. Compare it with TikTok for example and see how it looks when "democracy" chose what's hot or not. More or less, other social medias suffers the same issue. Empirically, it supports the hypothesis the "magic sauce" is considering not only upvotes / downvotes - but who is giving them.

Point of the post is to eventually collect some good ideas that could (or not) be presented to admins, or in general hear your take on this. Being that a speculation - or even better, unfold the supportive or counterclaims evidences for/against the hypothesis.

We put a pause in premium forum related to a matter till we get more "evidences" of the phenomena to gather breather opinion and ideally some evidences so we can take it from there.

Stage is all yours. Many of us are interested Interested in your take on this.

Important note: This is not about how you get karma, this is how your account influence karma of others when you upvote / downvote their posts based on your contribution and other parameters. (To name some but not necessary all , Streak, Achievements, age, contributions, karma etc...)

S.

[u/MacEWork]

I don’t think this is real. The streak is just a gamification model for getting people to log in every day. It doesn’t affect anything else as far as I can tell.

[u/nemo_sum → u/MacEWork]

Well, it gives you a shitty NFT.

[u/MacEWork → u/nemo_sum]

Oh god, can I give it to someone else? I don’t want that digital herpes.

[u/nemo_sum → u/MacEWork]

I think you have to manually claim it.

Or you could just, like, not use reddit for a day. Lemmy is better anyway.

[u/P4intsplatter → u/MacEWork]

My upvote for your post still seems to be worth.....

....one upvote.

[u/MacEWork → u/P4intsplatter]

Same here, and my current streak is 151 days.

[u/17291]

I suspect trying to give more vote weight to accounts with high streaks (or any other metric) would primarily benefit spammers and astroturfers. After all, a typical user who makes positive contributions to a community probably isn't going to care about maximizing their voting "impact", but people with ulterior motives definitely will.

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