Bad take aside, It’s frustrating the upvotes and downvotes I get on kbin don’t match up to how they appear on lemmy, or hell, even other instances of kbin.
I’ll have posts that have 20 upvotes here on kbin.cafe, but 2 elsewhere. I’ll have posts that will have no downvotes at all on kbin.social, but they’ll be present on lemmy.
How am I supposed to gauge people’s reactions when the feedback isn’t consistant between sites and instances?
I’m not opposed to a change, but I’ll admit I’m perfectly fine with how it is now. I’m concerned that having a universally recognized karma score will just open up avenues for karma-related spamming, toxicity, manipulation, etc. People got dumb on Reddit over karma. Plus, if all you really want is to know if your posts are being received well, really well, poorly, or terribly by other users, I actually think the numbers we currently see are still plenty adequate to serve that purpose.