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About half my highest-karma comments have been pithy dismissals, humorous asides, planting flags on hot-button nontechnical posts, etc. -- insubstantial stuff.
by mturmon 13y ago
About half my highest-karma comments have been pithy dismissals, humorous asides, planting flags on hot-button nontechnical posts, etc. -- insubstantial stuff.
14 karma: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5646078 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5646078
6 karma: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5633037 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5633037
I'm not saying karma is worthless, but high-karma comments are skewed by jackpots obtained from fluff.
- kbenson 13y agoI wonder how much of the karma for the insubstantial stuff is actually a response to not being able to down vote. When you can't down vote, seeing a reply that sheds new light, puts some of the ridiculousness in context, or just takes a person down a notch may get a vote because it's your best way of voting by proxy. For the comment writer it's a bit of a double edged sword. Sometimes the feedback you get relative to the time and effort put into a post can be disheartening.