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As someone who is coming to increasingly believe that 99% of the world problems are caused by powers seeking to intentionally divide us one from the other, I ca
by revscat 2y ago
As someone who is coming to increasingly believe that 99% of the world problems are caused by powers seeking to intentionally divide us one from the other, I cannot tell you how much joy this brings me to see. I wish you great success in this effort, however small it might appear to be in the scheme of things.
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- Forgeties79 2y agoNo need to be patronizing. You clearly know what they mean, it’s a term that I’ve definitely seen beyond Reddit.
- hackernewds 2y agokarma is definitely a reddit term. but besides that, nothing wrong with using reddit
- Two4 2y agokarma is a term _used_ by reddit, but it definitely isn't exclusively used there. Outside of its hindu origin, it's used by quite a few forums that track user submission/comment votes as a user score, including hackernews.
- chrisweekly 2y agoYeah, it's literally the term used for "points" of social capital in places like HN and Slashdot before it.
- com2kid 2y agoIt started out on slashdot, the forum that invented the entire concept back in the late 90s.
- nine_k 2y agoIt's still around, and looks alive. I remember when Slashdot introducing the karma cap, far below my then extant karma. It mostly made karma farming irrelevant. I also like their mod points plus meta moderation approach.
- fuzztester 2y agoHN user pg, aka Paul Graham, the (co-)founder of both this site, i.e. HN, and YC itself, the "parent" site, was probably the guy (or one of his early colleagues) who implemented the karma feature here on HN. I am saying this because the feature has been there from pretty early on. No need to believe me, go verify it yourself, by any means you choose. And see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EndlessKnot03d.png https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EndlessKnot03d.png
- Forgeties79 2y agoOh there is definitely something wrong with using Reddit after their API fiasco revealed how much disdain they have for their own users and moderators, but that’s besides the point
- rfl890 2y agothe only place where people care enough about imaginary internet points to comment "stop karma farming" is reddit...
- Forgeties79 2y ago"karma farming" is just another way of saying "playing to the base" on any site. No one actually thinks the points here are worth anything or worth tracking.
- conjectures 2y agoIf you click on your profile name (shown top right) you can check your 'karma' score.
- ldoughty 2y agoI agree so much, but the pessimist in me says that this isn't _really_ free, and I don't want to plug in a cool person's info without knowing who the info is being sold to. If this was publicly available document so I could fill in the missing bits, I'd send a dozen of these tomorrow.
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- hackernewds 2y agosend one to temp mail then copy it. if the privacy policy weren't so lax I'd not share the cynicism with you, but it state it'll be collected and shared
- adnanaga 2y agoit truly is free hahah we're using some free survey website plan and then Mark would fill in a template in google docs, print, and post the official letter. I think we hit our limit on the form though. We didn't expect it to blow up! Mark is gonna kill me when he checks his email
- walterbell 2y ago> some free survey website plan What's their privacy policy?
- adnanaga 2y agohttps://www.jotform.com/privacy/ https://www.jotform.com/privacy/
- richardw 2y ago“Yeah we pivoted to hiring and blackmail only later. Killer skills went to hiring, dodgy office romances went to blackmail. Profits are excellent.”
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- nicbou 2y agoGratitude goes a long way. My job puts me on the receiving end of a lot of gratitude, and I absolutely adore it. It's one of the main perks of the job. After experiencing it, I have become a lot more lavish in my praise, and frequently email people to thank them for their work. Most of them are very appreciative of it, especially when they make their work freely available.
- skeeter2020 2y ago>> I’ll contact someone if I loved their book or music or work. I’ll find a way to contact the author or the creator and say, “Holy shit. That was brilliant. I loved it. This was amazing. Count me as a fan.” >> I’ve done this about 20 times. I never got a response only once or twice, but the rest responded warmly. Many of these people have turned into friends. We actually call each other on the phone and shoot the shit. A couple of them have even turned into best friends. more here: https://sive.rs/2020-04-email https://sive.rs/2020-04-email
- _kb 2y agoHighly recommend any work that has a non-trivial creation/publishing threshold, regardless of medium or domain. To tie the back to a HN context - this works great for academic papers. I've had some great email exchanges from original authors including a few people I've absolutely idolised. Turns out they're human too.
- thunky 2y ago> Gratitude goes a long way. It sure does. And lack of gratitude goes a long way in the wrong direction. Big time demotivator.
- 127 2y agoNah, 99% of the world problems is caused by fraud.
- brookst 2y agoAnd 1% by dubious statistics?