They are repositories for quotes that resonate with and/or amuse us. It might be a little too easy to get karma that way, admittedly, but I think they are nice to have around.
Sources of karma don’t bother me. It just seems like the standards for voting in that thread—both comments and replies—is really different than the rest of the site. Not looser, but different.
It seems like I’m always surprised but the vote totals there—both upvotes and downvotes, when I think I have a feel for what folks like in the rest of the site.
They are repositories for quotes that resonate with and/or amuse us. It might be a little too easy to get karma that way, admittedly, but I think they are nice to have around.
Sources of karma don’t bother me. It just seems like the standards for voting in that thread—both comments and replies—is really different than the rest of the site. Not looser, but different.
It seems like I’m always surprised but the vote totals there—both upvotes and downvotes, when I think I have a feel for what folks like in the rest of the site.