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> Why should people work so hard to gain something that is crumbling into dust all around us? Like money which will decay with inflation, or perhaps the regard
by jbert 18y ago
> Why should people work so hard to gain something that is crumbling into dust all around us?
Like money which will decay with inflation, or perhaps the regard of people who will be dust in a few decades?
> If karma is constantly going down anyway it will confuse the issue
If that's a problem, the site can provide the 1st derivative (ignoring decay). A bit like music charts ("at number 10, up 5, it's...").
Some sites (perlmonks) already give you an xp (karma) delta whenever you reload the page. A last 24-hours delta would be more useful (again ignoring decay).
Then again, I don't see what the utility of decaying karma is personally. It smacks of "what have you done for me lately". I think it's OK to respect people for past glories.
- jrockway 18y agoThen again, I don't see what the utility of decaying karma is personally. It smacks of "what have you done for me lately". I think it's OK to respect people for past glories. Incidentally, this is one of the reasons why I don't participate on Perlmonks. There are a lot of people there that have "been around forever" and answer questions as though it's 1999. I really enjoy reading the "don't use Moose, it's bloat" threads from people I've never heard of. Anyway, karma decay would be good for Perlmonks, IMHO.
- jbert 18y agoInteresting. Perhaps that's perl's main problem. Ruby (or python) snatched up that generation of hackers since they could make more of a splash. Someone commented on reddit a few weeks back "perl used to have a really cool culture" OK - I can now see a benefit of favouring recent contributors. It helps stop ossificiation.