A little bit, along the lines of: - okay, so this comment has positive karma, which suggests that the overall sentiment towards this point of view, technolog

A little bit, along the lines of: - okay, so this comment has positive karma, which suggests that the overall sentiment towards this point of view, technology or approach is favorable - hmm, this comment resulted in negative karma, which suggests that it might be something controversial, perhaps this view needs to be re-examined and not held as strongly Public opinion isn't all, of course, but if I were to suggest that every application should be serverless with no room for variety (just an example), then such a comment would most likely not have too many proponents, possibly prompting me to re-evaluate whether that's a good stance, or whether there's more nuance to it. Same for discussions of self-hosting, or containers, or programming languages or anything, really. Thankfully, people here actually share interesting details even about the things that they agree with, or provide constructive criticisms a lot of the time, so there's many learning experiences to be had. In that regard, I haven't found many better communities. I don't really care much for losing karma, but perhaps that's because most of the things I say aren't that controversial, or are offered in a relatively grounded manner. At worst, people might just not care and I wouldn't learn what others think or have experienced.