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> exhibiting your own knowledge, you’re looking for validation, or want to demonstrate your own superior morals. Speak for yourself please. On most forums nobo
by goodpoint 4y ago
> exhibiting your own knowledge, you’re looking for validation, or want to demonstrate your own superior morals.
Speak for yourself please. On most forums nobody is going to praise another for their knowledge. Additionally most people are anonymous.
- e1g 4y agoAll popular internet discussion places are built on likes, upvotes, and other superfluous praise signals.
- k__ 4y agoYes, if the internet of today is about anything, it's about people getting praise for something.
- sneak 4y agoMost, sure. But I have learned more from astoundingly good HN comments over the last dozen years than any other site on the internet. I love that our local celebrities, as such, are such not for battle but for their euclididation.
- bumby 4y agoThere seems to be quite a bit of behavioral and evolutionary psychology that claims all actions are initiated by emotions. So the emotional payoff is the real driver, even when people pretend to be above the non-virtuous fray (which is itself a status signaling mechanism with an emotionally validating payoff)