Lemmy Karma Calculator – An extension I wrote to display how much score (Karma) you have!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmy-karma-calculator/

source code is availabe here. I'd appreciate feedbacks!

6 points · 30 comments · view on lemmy.world

30 Comments

CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml · 42 pts · 2y (5 replies)

No offense, but I don't like this. Not having Karma is one of the main advantages lemmy has. Karma sucks.

KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y

Agreed, non-cumulative metrics are a pro, not a con.

Yoru@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

all good, I just made it for fun anyways 🫡

Ward@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 2y

🫡

hal_5700X@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

People can vote. So you do have karma, but you can't see it.

KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Yes/no, clearly it can be calculated, but it's not like it's a hidden value. Also becomes a little skewed given that some instances have downvote turned off entirely.

strawberry@artemis.camp · 26 pts · 2y (7 replies)

honestly, can we just let that die with reddit?

Yoru@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y (6 replies)

well, it doesn't have to be called "Karma", it's called "Score" in Lemmy's API. I'm probably going to rename it.

Schlemmy@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Yes, but people will be starting to react or act to get 'score'. It incentivises certain behaviour.

Yoru@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2y

o

hal_5700X@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

You have to install the extension to see your karma score. Don't install it. Problem gone.

strawberry@artemis.camp · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

afaik score is just per post, not a cumulative thing visible on ur account

Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

No I think there's a total score that is saved in your account but is hidden from the frontend

strawberry@artemis.camp · 1 pts · 2y

dunno. either way, im on kbin, so could be different

queermunist@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 2y (4 replies)

You monster! 😉

Yoru@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I just noticed it only works for lemmy.ml and lemmy.world, my fault. Will be publishing the fix in a bit. I was a little too excited XD

Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Thanks anyway!

Yoru@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

the version is out :)

Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y

Great!

hal_5700X@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I don't see the point of downvoting this. You have to install the extension to see your karma score. So I don't see what's the big deal is. Clam down, people.

EDIT My biggest problem is this add-on needs access your data for all websites. Why not Lemmy sites only?

Yoru@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y

because there are too many lemmeny instances, cannot possibly add them all

Crul@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

mlmym frontend shows it, although it shows different values depending on the instance:

https://mlmym.org/lemm.ee/u/Yoru@lemmy.ml

https://old.lemmy.world/u/Yoru@lemmy.ml

humanplayer2@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y (4 replies)

How do you tally it? I've seen lots of discussions about guesses about how the reddit system works.

Yoru@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I run an API request on loop until there are no posts/comments left. Then I somply add up their score. Sorry for the late response btw

humanplayer2@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Ko problem. Ok, so just the sum of all up- and downvotes. No dicounting for viral posts, etc.

Yoru@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I didn't really understand but it's basically (all upvoted) - (all downvotes)

humanplayer2@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

Ok. Reddit has some really elaborate system where the first upvotes gives 1 karma, then after upvote 500 or something, each only gives 0.5 karma or something, etc.

CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y

Very cool

Disgusted_Tadpole@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Oh that’s sweet

Yoru@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

Thanks! Lmk if you have any suggestions :D