What is a better system than Karma to encourage status-seeking-rational primates to read the blog, but at the same time to avoid over-commenting to get more points?
Systematically downvoting comments like mine right here.
What about your comment makes it worthy of downvoting? Is it that it’s meta, or that it doesn’t add content to the conversation, or just because you asked us to?
I can’t for the life of me remember making this comment.
I’d guess that it was meta; it was semi-smart, but not very productive, so it deserved to be downvoted, which is what it asked for, and which it got. Basically, smart-sounding comments with tenuous relevance are a waste—the smartness should not be a shield.
Systematically downvoting comments like mine right here.
What about your comment makes it worthy of downvoting? Is it that it’s meta, or that it doesn’t add content to the conversation, or just because you asked us to?
I can’t for the life of me remember making this comment.
I’d guess that it was meta; it was semi-smart, but not very productive, so it deserved to be downvoted, which is what it asked for, and which it got. Basically, smart-sounding comments with tenuous relevance are a waste—the smartness should not be a shield.