I am willing to sacrifice large amounts of karma to test this as someone who cares deeply about both the quality of the LW community and about gender issues, and who experiences significant intangible benefit from cleverly cracking someone’s utility function. Should I?
I agree, and this crossed my mind, but there seems no other way to coordinate properly, and I have, in fact, take a further sacrifice in possibly inspiring any number of other people indistinguishable from normal gender-progressives to act in accordance with this plan, silently, at the possible expense of this effectiveness.
I am willing to sacrifice large amounts of karma to test this
Uhm.. you don’t have large amounts of karma (I have lost more karma in the block down votes I’m receiving than your total)and as people said announcing your intentions seems counter-productive.
An amount which is large to me, but thanks for trivializing my willingness to sacrifice.
While I’m genuinely not sure whether that’s tongue-in-cheek or not, either way I’d rather go to Reddit to witness such tragicomedies and not see this community, too, devolve into adolescent internet-points-bickering. I admit that I dig the entertainment value (and the bait is strong), but as the proverb goes, let’s keep this place free from apotheosing imaginary constructs. Instead, right this way is a better place to bravely martyr yourself for the public good.
It is my estimation that none of the people around here whose approval is typically sought will actually judge you by your karma score in any significant sense, as opposed to by being impressed with the content of your comments, or your posts in Main. There are plenty of low karma commenters whose contributions I respect, and some high karma commenters whose I don’t. YMMV.
I am willing to sacrifice large amounts of karma to test this as someone who cares deeply about both the quality of the LW community and about gender issues, and who experiences significant intangible benefit from cleverly cracking someone’s utility function. Should I?
Publicly admitting this plan is likely to reduce its effectiveness.
I agree, and this crossed my mind, but there seems no other way to coordinate properly, and I have, in fact, take a further sacrifice in possibly inspiring any number of other people indistinguishable from normal gender-progressives to act in accordance with this plan, silently, at the possible expense of this effectiveness.
I am not quite clear as to how will you test this. Are you saying you will just troll? That doesn’t look likely to increase the quality of the forum.
Uhm.. you don’t have large amounts of karma (I have lost more karma in the block down votes I’m receiving than your total)and as people said announcing your intentions seems counter-productive.
An amount which is large to me, but thanks for trivializing my willingness to sacrifice.
While I’m genuinely not sure whether that’s tongue-in-cheek or not, either way I’d rather go to Reddit to witness such tragicomedies and not see this community, too, devolve into adolescent internet-points-bickering. I admit that I dig the entertainment value (and the bait is strong), but as the proverb goes, let’s keep this place free from apotheosing imaginary constructs. Instead, right this way is a better place to bravely martyr yourself for the public good.
It is my estimation that none of the people around here whose approval is typically sought will actually judge you by your karma score in any significant sense, as opposed to by being impressed with the content of your comments, or your posts in Main. There are plenty of low karma commenters whose contributions I respect, and some high karma commenters whose I don’t. YMMV.