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How would you feel about awards on lemmy?
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Honestly I think awards are a decent way of determining the quality of a post. If a Reddit post has a lot of awards it's a sign that it is especially helpful/interesting. I know there are exceptions and sometimes the flood of awards at the top of the post is annoying, but often it works for determining the quality.
So people will aim to make posts of similar quality to get awards as well.
Karma on the other hand is too easy to get so its leads to shitty reposts to get a lot of likes. But the people don't give awards to reposts that often.