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> Internet Point Chaser personalities Wow, thanks for putting a name to something that'd been annoying me for decades! It's so frustrating having to re-calibra

> Internet Point Chaser personalities Wow, thanks for putting a name to something that'd been annoying me for decades! It's so frustrating having to re-calibrate your expectations of the value in a community when this happens to it.

bartread 7y ago
I enjoyed "Internet Point Chaser personalities" too, although people who practice this sort of behaviour have always had a name: "karma whores". I first saw that term used on Slashdot, but subsequently also on community sites where points weren't explicitly called karma. I think I might prefer "Internet Point Chaser" though, because it's a bit more lighthearted.
- 97b683f8 7y ago
  It makes me think Communism could be on par with Capitalism if people started chasing points instead of money. Oh wait ! Anyway another use of Stackoverflow is open source support by open source software authors. I've been using ByteBuddy recently (java bytecode manipulation library) and the doc is very superficial all the more so the library in itself is a gigantic net of classes and dependencies to inject (the problem with DSLs based on object oriented systems is that you're never shown the DSL's full syntax but has to deduce it from the individual bricks). Turns out the author is very active on Stackoverflow and these posts have constituted 95% of the sources I read to learn how to handle this library.
  - simonh 7y ago
    >...chasing points instead of money. Oh wait ! Comrade Xi is way ahead of you. Of course there is a capitalist way to approach the same problem. Free money off vouchers at Doral Resort with every early IRS return.
- shrikant 7y ago
  I'd always associated the term "karma whores" with people who recycle and repost stuff for the imaginary Internet points. "IPC personalities" would be people who are actually reasonably well-intentioned, but sort of "stalk" the New/Rising equivalent queues (or tags on SO) to be able to "frist ps0t!!1" a reasonable looking (but obvious!) comment or answer. The classic "low brow dismissal" or low hanging fruit humour type comment comes to mind (Correlation is not causation, but will it run Linux, has Netcraft confirmed it, etc.).

bartread 7y ago

I enjoyed "Internet Point Chaser personalities" too, although people who practice this sort of behaviour have always had a name: "karma whores". I first saw that term used on Slashdot, but subsequently also on community sites where points weren't explicitly called karma. I think I might prefer "Internet Point Chaser" though, because it's a bit more lighthearted.

97b683f8 7y ago
It makes me think Communism could be on par with Capitalism if people started chasing points instead of money. Oh wait ! Anyway another use of Stackoverflow is open source support by open source software authors. I've been using ByteBuddy recently (java bytecode manipulation library) and the doc is very superficial all the more so the library in itself is a gigantic net of classes and dependencies to inject (the problem with DSLs based on object oriented systems is that you're never shown the DSL's full syntax but has to deduce it from the individual bricks). Turns out the author is very active on Stackoverflow and these posts have constituted 95% of the sources I read to learn how to handle this library.
- simonh 7y ago
  >...chasing points instead of money. Oh wait ! Comrade Xi is way ahead of you. Of course there is a capitalist way to approach the same problem. Free money off vouchers at Doral Resort with every early IRS return.
shrikant 7y ago
I'd always associated the term "karma whores" with people who recycle and repost stuff for the imaginary Internet points. "IPC personalities" would be people who are actually reasonably well-intentioned, but sort of "stalk" the New/Rising equivalent queues (or tags on SO) to be able to "frist ps0t!!1" a reasonable looking (but obvious!) comment or answer. The classic "low brow dismissal" or low hanging fruit humour type comment comes to mind (Correlation is not causation, but will it run Linux, has Netcraft confirmed it, etc.).