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You spammed. You posted without relevancy and interrupted every thread you entered. And you did it for leet karma? Seriously? It's a fucking number on a fucking

by unalone 17y ago

You spammed. You posted without relevancy and interrupted every thread you entered. And you did it for leet karma? Seriously? It's a fucking number on a fucking web site. The number doesn't fucking matter, the number on the web site doesn't fucking matter, the web site doesn't fucking matter. This is not a social experiment. It's asshattery. The guidelines are basic: If you're not stupid, you don't get banned. I'd never heard of you before, but I looked at your comments. For a guy who's been here two years, you don't have a clue what this community likes and doesn't like, apparently. My advice: Get a new account, one with a completely different name, and start over again. Your karma doesn't matter. From your previous posting habits, it didn't look like you were much of a karma whore anyway.

rbanffy3 17y ago
I was never a karma whore. I just identified a specific, funny, number and made getting to it a small project on "karma engineering". It was aimed on the fun side. At first I needed a couple down-votes. Then I felt the urge to post on a discussion (about a civil rights and the responsibilities of the press issue) and got a whole lot of karma points because of that. It was then I decided on Plan-B, which was to actively ask for down-votes. As for the disruption, had the posts worked as expected, they would quickly sink to the bottom of the list. Can I be blamed someone up-voted them into the middle of the discussions? Specially when I asked the contrary in the very message?
- unalone 17y ago
  "Karma engineering?" That's absurd. I understand your logic. I just think it's incredibly stupid. It goes against the point of this site, and it's a waste of time.
  - rbanffy3 17y ago
    I disagree. It's an exploration of the social bonds of the community on top of this site and the mechanics of it. Something can be learned. For instance, I have a couple unanswered questions: - Why people would up-vote a post asking to be downvoted? - Why is this issue polarizing? - What are exactly the laws under the community? I am sorry my playful attempt to manipulate an otherwise meaningless indicator offended so many people. I would have never guessed it would. I am utterly surprised at the reactions.
jacquesm 17y ago
It was in bad taste, a simple deletion of the relevant posts would have done the job. No need to burn somebody who has been contributing lots of good stuff for one silly thing. After all, there are plenty of people that do dumber things than that (stop their car on the highway to take a picture of their odometer ticking over...). This was very mild in comparison. Annoying, sure. Apologize, never do it again. But to kill an account for that ? There are quite a few known spammers here, they get away with it almost every day and they do on the whole a lot more damage, their accounts don't get killed either, it seems a little arbitrary.

by unalone 17y ago

rbanffy3 17y ago

I was never a karma whore. I just identified a specific, funny, number and made getting to it a small project on "karma engineering". It was aimed on the fun side. At first I needed a couple down-votes. Then I felt the urge to post on a discussion (about a civil rights and the responsibilities of the press issue) and got a whole lot of karma points because of that. It was then I decided on Plan-B, which was to actively ask for down-votes. As for the disruption, had the posts worked as expected, they would quickly sink to the bottom of the list. Can I be blamed someone up-voted them into the middle of the discussions? Specially when I asked the contrary in the very message?

unalone 17y ago
"Karma engineering?" That's absurd. I understand your logic. I just think it's incredibly stupid. It goes against the point of this site, and it's a waste of time.
- rbanffy3 17y ago
  I disagree. It's an exploration of the social bonds of the community on top of this site and the mechanics of it. Something can be learned. For instance, I have a couple unanswered questions: - Why people would up-vote a post asking to be downvoted? - Why is this issue polarizing? - What are exactly the laws under the community? I am sorry my playful attempt to manipulate an otherwise meaningless indicator offended so many people. I would have never guessed it would. I am utterly surprised at the reactions.

jacquesm 17y ago

It was in bad taste, a simple deletion of the relevant posts would have done the job. No need to burn somebody who has been contributing lots of good stuff for one silly thing. After all, there are plenty of people that do dumber things than that (stop their car on the highway to take a picture of their odometer ticking over...). This was very mild in comparison. Annoying, sure. Apologize, never do it again. But to kill an account for that ? There are quite a few known spammers here, they get away with it almost every day and they do on the whole a lot more damage, their accounts don't get killed either, it seems a little arbitrary.