I am used to the Reddit model in which you need karma to pretty much do anything. Is that the case here? Does anything happen if you end up with just negative points?
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Screw the internet points. Even when I was using Reddit, I use Ublock Origin to block the karma point next to username top right, no point, no distraction.
There is a checkbox for it (Show Scores) in the web UI. I don't know how to do it in other frontends.
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I don't know about the sorting (I think it's just based on engagement), but downvotes have no effect on your account
I think Top X posts are done by score, and Hot takes both score and comments into account.