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That was already quite interesting to read out of context, but I'd definitely look forward to something you've written about it for an audience more like this o
by mortenjorck 17y ago
That was already quite interesting to read out of context, but I'd definitely look forward to something you've written about it for an audience more like this one.
(So did I just raise your status?)
- jackchristopher 17y ago(Yeah, you did. ;)) And as an aside I think that upvoting and downvoting in practice becomes mostly about status raising or lowering. Subconsciously it's about the gain or loss of prestige of a comment (and person). Also, it's interesting to read (HN) headlines with status transactions in mind. When reading a headline ask yourself, who got lowered? Who was raised? Take Microsoft takes a loss to Firefox The obvious thing is FF>MS, but who else is lowered or raised? So here's an example of a conversation analyzed by Keith Johnstone's who basically the father of improv: http://www.thestage.co.uk/connect/acblack/improkj.php http://www.thestage.co.uk/connect/acblack/improkj.php I would submitted this a while ago, but it'd be hard to make clear what my intention for doing that was.