FenrirIII@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 1 day agoOklahoma Senator Mullin is worrieddiscuss.onlineexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1635arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1629arrow-down1external-linkOklahoma Senator Mullin is worrieddiscuss.onlineFenrirIII@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 1 day agomessage-square35fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoScanned the comments. Not seeing anything weird except the output, which is more than a little suspicious. What would be the point of such a thing?
minus-squareA_norny_mousse@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 day agoMy guess: they come from a reddit “mindset” where it makes sense to start collecting karma to then sell the account or use it for some specific purpose. Since Lemmy - afaics - does not have the concept of karma, it just doesn’t make sense.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoWe don’t have totaled upvotes but I guess a really popular user could have influence. There are shockingly few contributing ATM. But I often think, were I paying someone to influence public opinion, I’d fire anyone who said they put effort into lemmy.
Scanned the comments. Not seeing anything weird except the output, which is more than a little suspicious.
What would be the point of such a thing?
My guess: they come from a reddit “mindset” where it makes sense to start collecting karma to then sell the account or use it for some specific purpose. Since Lemmy - afaics - does not have the concept of karma, it just doesn’t make sense.
We don’t have totaled upvotes but I guess a really popular user could have influence. There are shockingly few contributing ATM.
But I often think, were I paying someone to influence public opinion, I’d fire anyone who said they put effort into lemmy.