They might also be meaningless internet points. Who knows.

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      It’s ok, it was a bad and unrelated joke.

      I was just suggesting that the Lemmy system was better than the Reddit system, but that there might be a better system than this.

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        Lol that’s an interesting thought. I wonder what it would be like if instead of simply giving upvotes and downvotes, you could rate every comment/post on a scale of 1-10 or something. It probably wouldn’t work at all, but maybe there is some kind of system out there that would work better in the future.

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          Somewhere in these comments someone has said that it’s used to discriminate …ie “this account doesn’t have a very high karma” or not being allowed to comment in a sub cause you don’t a high enough karma.