There’s some misinformation floating around regarding Lemmy not having a karma system. While many have discovered otherwise, this is for those who may not have.
While it’s not exposed in the Lemmy default user interface, Lemmy does have a fully functional karma system and it is visible in third party clients such as WefWef and Memmy.
Do with that what you will.
I think you might’ve misunderstood where I was going with my point. I think value should be derived person by person, not by quantities.
Voting is a means to measure “mass” opinion. That doesn’t mean it’s the majority opinion (think bots and people who would want to sway a vote just to cause chaos and not to reflect what they want). It’s not a reliable way to get real peoples opinions because it’s naturally vulnerable to mass disruption