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.
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.