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Why are my posts in this thread being downmodded for asking questions about OpenID usability?

• fauigerzigerk 17y ago
  Because there are voting arrows next to each and every post that say "Make a judgement on this post!" If you give people an opportunity to make a judgement, some will always take it, regardless of whether a judgement makes sense or not. And that's one of the reasons I don't want to use OpenID. The internet is full of this braindead social shit. It's only a question of time until somebody comes up with the idea to aggregate all the meaningless karma across many sites. And it's only a question of time until that super karma score is quoted on your resume together with how many "followers", "friends" or other kind of nonsensical internet money you have accumulated ... by hook or crook. Gaining insight, asking questions, having a debate, making judgements, pushing an agenda, feeling good about judging others without making a case for or against anything. These things all get mixed up relentlessly in these primitive voting schemes. And not even the smart people who make this website seem to realise what an intellectual mess their Frankenstein game theory is. Or maybe they do but still think it's worth it. I disagree. The filtering effect of all these voting schemes is next to worthless. It creates more perverse incentives than positive ones. It's getting totally out of control. Millions of people are morphing into one man/woman cynical self marketing machines collecting fake internet money. I'm waiting for the world's first karma inflation crisis :-)
  • drinian 17y ago
    Have you read Cory Doctorow's "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom?" I think you'd like it.