Comment by john_strinlai
17 hours ago
i am curious, what are you hoping to get out of this comment? will you feel better if they say yes? what is your plan if they say no?
17 hours ago
i am curious, what are you hoping to get out of this comment? will you feel better if they say yes? what is your plan if they say no?
I genuinely want to understand how they arrived at the claim that this was a fluffy marketing piece. Like, if you said on a different thread, "the Linux kernel is probably mostly written in Pascal", I would really want to understand how it was you got to that idea.
> what are you hoping to get out of this comment?
Rando here. It gives a signal on the account’s other comments, as well as the value of the original comment (as a hypothesis, albeit a wrong one, versus blind raging).
>"It gives a signal on the account's other comments,"
fair enough. i typically use karma as a rough proxy for that, especially when the user has a lot of it (like, in this case, where the poster is #17 on the leaderboard with 100,000+ karma). you dont get that much karma if you are consistently posting bad takes.
>as well as the value of the original comment (as a hypothesis, albeit a wrong one, versus blind raging).
i dont see, in this case anyways, how or why that distinction would matter or change anything (in this case specifically, what would you change or do differently if it was a hypothesis or simple "raging"?), but im probably just thinking about it incorrectly.
I think a lot of people are overreading this and really all that's happened here is that I was out at a show last night and was really foggy when I woke up and asked a question clumsily. It happens!
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> you dont get that much karma if you are consistently posting bad takes.
I wonder how true that is. While this site doesn't have incentivize engagement-maximizing behaviour (posting ragebait) like some other sites do, I would imagine that simply posting more is the best way to accrue karma long-term.
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