I’m one of the people who upvoted that, and I didn’t upvote it for praise (also, I haven’t been involved in the conversation in question, so the praise wasn’t directed at me). I upvoted it for giving useful feedback and supporting a dynamic I want to see more of.
Data point framed differently: It is possible to get the group to up-vote you despite praising the group but it still isn’t a good way to gain status, you are still better off copy and pasting quotes into the quote thread.
That occurred to me, but I did like the thread, and possibly getting status points just because people like getting praised didn’t seem like a good enough reason not to do it. I was surprised at how long it took for the points to accumulate.
At this point, I have enough upvotes that I don’t feel a need to work the system to get more of them.
On the other hand, I’ve noticed that I’m less apt to follow a whole discussion once I’ve commented—I get too interested in checking my comment for votes and replies.
In general people get status for doing good things and they SHOULD in general do things that they get status for and are praised for. Even if the above correlation is far from perfect, people’s own knowledge of what’s good may not be better than the rules within a good community for assigning status so they should at least try doing high status things to find out first hand whether those things are actually good.
Data point, praising the group gets the group to praise or up-vote you and is a good way to gain status, contra http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/01/status-audit.html#more-21415 Important for people to remember this for future use.
I’m one of the people who upvoted that, and I didn’t upvote it for praise (also, I haven’t been involved in the conversation in question, so the praise wasn’t directed at me). I upvoted it for giving useful feedback and supporting a dynamic I want to see more of.
Data point: Insulting the group gets the group to praise or up-vote you approximately 25 times as many karma points.
Data point framed differently: It is possible to get the group to up-vote you despite praising the group but it still isn’t a good way to gain status, you are still better off copy and pasting quotes into the quote thread.
That occurred to me, but I did like the thread, and possibly getting status points just because people like getting praised didn’t seem like a good enough reason not to do it. I was surprised at how long it took for the points to accumulate.
At this point, I have enough upvotes that I don’t feel a need to work the system to get more of them.
On the other hand, I’ve noticed that I’m less apt to follow a whole discussion once I’ve commented—I get too interested in checking my comment for votes and replies.
In general people get status for doing good things and they SHOULD in general do things that they get status for and are praised for. Even if the above correlation is far from perfect, people’s own knowledge of what’s good may not be better than the rules within a good community for assigning status so they should at least try doing high status things to find out first hand whether those things are actually good.