Like, if there are no karma counts and there’s no downvote, does upvoting things I like have an effect?
They make me feel happy when I get them, and I need all the dopamine I can get these days.
Take one from me you junkie.
You guys are ruining his rehab D’:
I have ADHD, there’s no rehab for me, only the endless quest for dopamine.
Found any good Lemmy places for the ADHD crew?
I’m a mod over on https://beehaw.org/c/neurodivergence, which has a good number of us.
One dopamine for you. Have a nice day.
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It impacts the sorting algorithms. More info about that here.
upvoting moves the post higher in the Hot, Active, and Top views.
technical details
the value of upvotes decay logarithmically over time in the Hot and Active views. new posts and comments have quite a bit of an early advantage, and since upvotes decay, popular old posts and new posts are on roughly equal footing in the Hot and Active views.
here is the algorithm, where R is rank, s is score (number of upvotes - downvotes), and t is time since posting in hours
Reddit monkey-brain says big number mean good, so I updoot anything good. I say if you like something, give it a doot.
I don’t think it has any effect beyond showing other people appreciated the post. And I’ve read somewhere around here on this site, that not having “karma” associated with each account help prevents bot and faming accounts.
there’s no fake internet points like karma, but the voting provides weight to how the data is sorted when viewing multiple community’s posts at once. of course if you access the community’s content directly through that community you’ll see everything there regardless of the positive/negative votes on it.
The mlem app shows a “karma” score — both for me and all of you lot.
Really? I wonder where it gets that information from… Is it just doing the math for all the posts on someone’s account? I’d think not since that’d be pretty slow… Do you have any idea how?
So, downvotes are disabled on beehaw? It’s a very good idea.
