I want to message people but it says that I don’t have enough reputation.

  • Contramuffin@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    The karma-to-post system was horrid on reddit and made it nearly impossible to get into reddit as a new user. I really hope it doesn’t come to the fediverse…

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
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      12 days ago

      I think it has its place as a spam reduction measure as long as it’s used judiciously. The problem is that Reddit never properly handled the problem and didn’t have much incentive to implement a good solution.

  • marighost@piefed.socialEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Encourage and engage in discussion. You’re on piefed.social like me, but I’m not sure what the reputation threshold is for our instance. I assume it differs between instances.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
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      13 days ago

      I would really like to learn more about this reputation concept. This is the first I’ve heard of it here.

      • sad_detective_man@leminal.spaceEnglish
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        13 days ago

        ohh, I can’t their instance on voyager unless I click on their profile. curious, this is the second policy I’ve seen piefed borrow from post-2023 reddit. is that kind of their goal?

        • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
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          12 days ago

          The goal, which is already achieved, is to create a better experience than Lemmy offers and with none of the support for genocide denial.

          Or do you want users to be able to make new accounts/bots to spam PM’s? I honestly see zero benefit to not blocking PM’s until they post a bit.

          • sad_detective_man@leminal.spaceEnglish
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            12 days ago

            it’s valid in its intent, having my run in with the people you’re describing sucked. I just saw karma checks taken to some pretty ugly places on reddit before I ghosted out of there. In my encounters with genocide deniers here, the problematic aspect I saw was a mod team interfering with the comments and deleting responses. r/conservative on reddit does the same thing to keep their userbase trimmed down to only the most vocal and loyal christofascists.

            I kind of want to be on a website where people with admin priveledges are being held at least a little more accountable than regular users. but that’s probably just my damage talking. I can pretty assuredly say that actually real botting on fediverse is pretty inadequate since every user has to be manually approved and write a cover letter for many instances. the hoards of genocide deniers you see are probably actual living CCP citizens engaging in a documented cultural passtime

    • s@piefed.worldEnglish
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      13 days ago

      @rimu@piefed.social (the dev for Piefed and also the admin of OP’s host instance Piefed.social)

      Is the reputation filter a built-in part of Piefed or is instead specific to the host instances which opt into it? It seems like the function is getting a lukewarm reception, but I don’t know if it will ultimately be for the better or the worse to have it.

  • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
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    12 days ago

    PieFed dev here.

    You need to do some posts and comments. People will upvote them, which will increase your ‘reputation’.

    I had a look at your account and I expect this post will get you enough upvotes that you’ll be able to send messages quite soon.

    This is an anti-spam and anti-abuse feature.

  • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Maybe it’s just upvote thing. Maybe keep using it and it naturally won’t matter. At least you guys won’t have a nicole there.