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| ▲ | tptacek 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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. | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > 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). | | |
| ▲ | john_strinlai 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | >"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. | | |
| ▲ | tptacek 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | 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! | | |
| ▲ | john_strinlai 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | 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"). | | |
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| ▲ | TheBicPen 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > 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. | | |
| ▲ | john_strinlai 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | >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. |
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