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I don't think people are sucking up, because a lot of the threads for the most recent pg essay were disagreeing with parts of it. I don't think people are karm

by brlewis 19y ago

I don't think people are sucking up, because a lot of the threads for the most recent pg essay were disagreeing with parts of it. I don't think people are karma whoring, because that would mean commenting on lots more stories. The average comment is more likely to be upvoted than downvoted, so a karma whore would comment as much as possible. I don't want to see more general chatter. I just want interesting comments. I'd rather see no comments than uninteresting ones.

aston 19y ago
I think we should encourage commenting at all costs. The karma system can handle not showing you the uninteresting/bad ones. Actually, now that I think about it, the karma system could be the reason people don't post as many comments. If you submit, you're looking at all upside. But you can hurt yourself by saying something dumb, so people opt to say nothing at all.