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>The definition of karma whoring isn't posting irrelevant things just for upvotes, it's focusing on getting upvoted rather than answering. Why is there a negat

>The definition of karma whoring isn't posting irrelevant things just for upvotes, it's focusing on getting upvoted rather than answering. Why is there a negative stigma around wanting karma and seeking it out even in the case where you're being helpful? It seems as though karma is something good to have but if you want it, that's bad. This seems similar to how wanting to be cool makes you so uncool. >His posting low-quality questions quickly just so he can get upvoted while refining them, posting irrelevant pictures just so the posts look nicer, etc, all points to karma whoring, not just answering a lot. Fair enough, my definition of karma whoring might be a bit off from the norm. I always took it as trying to gain karma from a community while basically doing nothing to further the quality of the community. I wasn't aware from his post that the pictures he was adding to the answers were entirely irrelevant. I must have missed where he said that (and I don't use Quora).

StavrosK 16y ago
I don't use quora either, I just saw his example post where the photo seems to be an airport whereas the post is about some other issue. There's a difference between being minimally helpful to maximise karma gain and being helpful and getting karma as a side-effect. The things he posted weren't about getting the highest quality posts possible, they were about getting the highest amount of upvotes. The fact that he posted low quality answers to gain karma while he refined them is a prime example of that, in my opinion. If you just care about helping you don't do that. Karma is a reward for helpful users, it's not the goal (that's why you can't redeem it for anything). When users act in this way it stops being an indicator of helpfulness and turns into an indicator of who's the best at raking in karma.

StavrosK 16y ago

I don't use quora either, I just saw his example post where the photo seems to be an airport whereas the post is about some other issue. There's a difference between being minimally helpful to maximise karma gain and being helpful and getting karma as a side-effect. The things he posted weren't about getting the highest quality posts possible, they were about getting the highest amount of upvotes. The fact that he posted low quality answers to gain karma while he refined them is a prime example of that, in my opinion. If you just care about helping you don't do that. Karma is a reward for helpful users, it's not the goal (that's why you can't redeem it for anything). When users act in this way it stops being an indicator of helpfulness and turns into an indicator of who's the best at raking in karma.