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Commenting online becomes addictive. It becomes a horrible time sink and a useless waste of time. Either arguing with people who don't understand anything, or e
by mibbitier 14y ago
Commenting online becomes addictive. It becomes a horrible time sink and a useless waste of time. Either arguing with people who don't understand anything, or endlessly circle-jerking with people who have the same viewpoint as you. Some even fall into the trap of believing their "karma" score somehow means something. All it means is how much time you waste online commenting.
Once you start commenting online, you can't easily stop. So it's not as simple as "Don't go to them".
</recovering addicts view>
- Swizec 14y agoKarma is a score. That means it's a game. "winning" games is fun. Thus increasing your karma score is, well, fun. Not to mention all the fringe benefits a decent karma score can bring you ... well not really the karma score itself, but the activities you do to get said score. It's really just putting "How useful you are to the community" into a cold hard integer. Being useful/known/etc. in the right communities has been a pretty damn important thing since forever. As always, what matters is what you do with all of this. Just having it by itself doesn't mean a thing.
- yashchandra 14y agoCannot agree with you more on this. Exactly my feeling.