The point was, there shouldn’t be a karma hit for “adding nothing to the conversation”. It should be okay to simply express a reaction without taking a karma hit. The score for “adding nothing” is 0; a negative score indicates that the comment subtracted something from the conversation. To downvote a comment is to actively discourage such a comment from being posted. I don’t think such comments should be actively discouraged.
Dilution of good content is subtraction, if not as bad as the addition of bad content. I really do have no desire to see a bare “LOL”, and will continue to vote accordingly.
There is no significant dilution occurring here. If we were flooded by “LOL” comments, or a particular user posted them with inappropriate frequency, that would be a different situation.
You are being too harsh. For my part, I have no desire to see this kind of non-niceness on here, just because we’re interested in high-quality content. It subtracts a lot more from the experience here than an occasional “LOL”.
The point was, there shouldn’t be a karma hit for “adding nothing to the conversation”. It should be okay to simply express a reaction without taking a karma hit. The score for “adding nothing” is 0; a negative score indicates that the comment subtracted something from the conversation. To downvote a comment is to actively discourage such a comment from being posted. I don’t think such comments should be actively discouraged.
Dilution of good content is subtraction, if not as bad as the addition of bad content. I really do have no desire to see a bare “LOL”, and will continue to vote accordingly.
There is no significant dilution occurring here. If we were flooded by “LOL” comments, or a particular user posted them with inappropriate frequency, that would be a different situation.
You are being too harsh. For my part, I have no desire to see this kind of non-niceness on here, just because we’re interested in high-quality content. It subtracts a lot more from the experience here than an occasional “LOL”.
Downvoting everything above this comment in this thread as a matter of principle.
Joking LOL.