Presumably you joined a while ago, when there weren’t so many intimidating high-karma users around
For example, I happen to have just over 10k karma, does it make me a clique member? What about TheOtherDave, or Nancy?
Yes on all counts. You’re clearly the cool kids here.
How do you tell if someone is in this clique?
You see them talk like they know each other. You see them using specialized terms without giving any context because everybody knows that stuff already. You see their enormous, impossible karma totals and wonder if they’ve hacked the system somehow.
How does someone in the clique tell if she is?
Dunno. It probably looks completely different from the other side. I’m just saying that’s what it feels like (and this is bad for attracting new members), not that’s what it’s really like.
Well, for example, I’m as aware of the differences between me and shminux as I ever was. From my perspective (and from theirs, I suspect), we aren’t nearly as homogenous as we apparently are from lmm’s perspective.
Presumably you joined a while ago, when there weren’t so many intimidating high-karma users around
Yes on all counts. You’re clearly the cool kids here.
You see them talk like they know each other. You see them using specialized terms without giving any context because everybody knows that stuff already. You see their enormous, impossible karma totals and wonder if they’ve hacked the system somehow.
Dunno. It probably looks completely different from the other side. I’m just saying that’s what it feels like (and this is bad for attracting new members), not that’s what it’s really like.
(nods) True enough.
That said, you’re absolutely right that it looks completely different from “the other side.”
What does it look like?
Well, for example, I’m as aware of the differences between me and shminux as I ever was. From my perspective (and from theirs, I suspect), we aren’t nearly as homogenous as we apparently are from lmm’s perspective.