Comment by john_strinlai
17 hours ago
>"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!
yeah, absolutely, i was not intending to start some big inquisition against you or anything.
just like you were genuinely trying to understand where pjmlp was coming from, i was genuinely trying to understand what you would get out of an answer to your question (or, like, what the next reply could even be other than "ok, cool").
Oh, yeah, no, you're fine, this is on me.
> 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.
>I would imagine that simply posting more is the best way to accrue karma long-term.
i definitely agree, which is why i use it as a rough proxy rather than ground truth, but i have my doubts that you can casually "post more" your way into the top 20 karma users of all time.