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HN's Karma score has partially helped me better understand myself in the social context. With time I've learned to realize which types of responses/opinions peo

by arnorhs 16y ago

HN's Karma score has partially helped me better understand myself in the social context. With time I've learned to realize which types of responses/opinions people generally prefer and how to word the same sentence so that it relates to people up to a point. I'm the nerdy type, with some social mis-alignments and I don't often realize how I represent my opinions and it's hard to look at yourself from a 3rd perspective. So Karma has actually helped me understand my place better. I'm not a Karma whore by any means but I really like paying attention to which responses work well and I even try to apply the same approach in every day life. Another thing that has also helped me: Twitter. I actually believe I write better since I started using Twitter because I'm more used to cramming more information to a smaller amount of words. At least, that's how I see it.

arnorhs 16y ago
Ironically. That response got downvoted and I have no idea why.
- scott_s 16y ago
  It's your community; if you feel a comment was unfairly down voted, up vote it. I often make "correction" up votes.
  - cema 16y ago
    He referred to his own comment. He cannot upvote it. Regarding down votes: some people click them because they disagree, some because they think the post may be irrelevant. Sometimes it is not clear which is the case.
    - scott_s 16y ago
      Ah, my mistake. I thought it was a different person.
sesqu 16y ago
That reminds me of what Conan O'Brien said about Twitter in his post-sack interview - that he felt it really honed his output, because he had to condense his jokes. I didn't think much of the few jokes I saw, presented so impersonally, but still. http://twitter.com/conanobrien http://twitter.com/conanobrien