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Unfortunately, anything you replace karma with will have the same problems that karma has. Any indicator of comment or user quality will be readily gamed by anyone with any skills whatsoever in automation.
Yes and no. Toxicity will always be around indeed... but we can definitely lessen its effect.
thing is... in the end, karma doesn't serve as that anyway (indicator of quality). It's so easy to karma farm by (re)posting content (sometimes even stolen) in multiple communities.
In NSFW communities, at least on Reddit, I see SO MANY posts that doesn't fit the community they were posted in, but being upvoted anyway because... well... it's nudity
Karma may not be an actual indicator of quality, but it is often used as such. That's the reason why all the bots exist in the first place and they are oddly enough* also the reason it's not a good indicator.
People look at top, People like to filter out the bottom.
Look at the alternatives. Page views? They'd be instantly botted. Engagement? Instantly botted. There's literally not any way to indicate that the crowd likes something or that something is of interest that can't be replicated in a hot second. Karma is the closest thing we have to a sorting filter that content creators are doing the right thing or an indicator to content consumers that something might stand out from the crowd.
I'm sitting here farming /r/interestingasfuck trying to make the /c/interestingasfuck viable and 2/3 of the highest ranked crap is garbage, The thing is, even 1/3 of it being real saves me from having to sort through thousands of page of crap to find decent stuff.
edit* missed a word