But much better would be that pointing out that someone was in fact doing harm would not be seen as punishment, if they stop when this is pointed out. In the world in which doing things is appreciated and rewarded, saying “I see you trying to do a thing! I think it’s harmful and you should stop.” and you saying “oops!” should net you points without me having to say “POINTS!”
Huh. I think part of what’s bothering me here is that I’m reading requests to award points (on the assumption that otherwise people will assign credit perversely) as declaring intent to punish me if I publicly change my mind in a way that’s not savvy to this game, insofar as implying that perverse norms are an unchangeable fait accompli strengthens those norms.
Ah. That’s my bad for conflating my mental concept of “POINTS!” (a reference mostly to the former At Midnight show, which I’ve generalized) with points in the form of Karma points. I think of generic ‘points’ as the vague mental accounting people do with respect to others by default. When I say I shouldn’t have to say ‘points’ I meant that I shouldn’t have to say words, but I certainly also meant I shouldn’t have to literally give you actual points!
And yeah, the whole metaphor is already a sign that things are not where we’d like them to be.
I didn’t think I was disagreeing with you—I meant to refer to the process of publicly explicitly awarding points to offset the implied reputational damage
Huh. I think part of what’s bothering me here is that I’m reading requests to award points (on the assumption that otherwise people will assign credit perversely) as declaring intent to punish me if I publicly change my mind in a way that’s not savvy to this game, insofar as implying that perverse norms are an unchangeable fait accompli strengthens those norms.
Ah. That’s my bad for conflating my mental concept of “POINTS!” (a reference mostly to the former At Midnight show, which I’ve generalized) with points in the form of Karma points. I think of generic ‘points’ as the vague mental accounting people do with respect to others by default. When I say I shouldn’t have to say ‘points’ I meant that I shouldn’t have to say words, but I certainly also meant I shouldn’t have to literally give you actual points!
And yeah, the whole metaphor is already a sign that things are not where we’d like them to be.
I didn’t think I was disagreeing with you—I meant to refer to the process of publicly explicitly awarding points to offset the implied reputational damage
Ah again, thanks for clarifying that.