It’s a bit tricky because the points of view are different. The label is pejorative when applied to someone’s behavior externally and I am saying that even if you don’t care about labels applied to you by others, karmawhoring is unlikely to be a good strategy for yourself.
Disagree.
Well, we need to figure out what do we care about. You are saying that karma is better correlated with “effort involved / value-added” while I’m talking about “readership and impact”. I think it’s a whole separate discussion as to which particular metric LW should optimize for.
Website admins, by the way, should be able to produce number of unique views per post fairly easily.
The label is pejorative when applied to someone’s behavior externally and I am saying that even if you don’t care about labels applied to you by others, karmawhoring is unlikely to be a good strategy for yourself.
What I meant by that is that it seems unlikely to me that someone would identify “I did X because of Karma, and X is something I endorse” as karmawhoring. So, by definition, doing karmawhoring is unlikely to be a good strategy- like murder is guaranteed to be illegal, but killing is murkier.
You are saying that karma is better correlated with “effort involved / value-added” while I’m talking about “readership and impact”
To me, value-added is basically readership and impact, except with the readers giving some feedback on whether the impact was positive or negative. If you get a lot of people to read a random string of characters, and so you waste part of their day, this is a loss over those people not noticing a random string of characters that you generated.
That section was mostly the empirical claim that number of comments is a bad proxy for the value generated by the post, whether you use karma or readership or some other metric. I mean, if you want more comments in your posts, put in more typos (in order to not annoy your readers, have only one typo, and when someone comments with a fix, edit in a new typo), or instigate political fights in the comments.
It’s a bit tricky because the points of view are different. The label is pejorative when applied to someone’s behavior externally and I am saying that even if you don’t care about labels applied to you by others, karmawhoring is unlikely to be a good strategy for yourself.
Well, we need to figure out what do we care about. You are saying that karma is better correlated with “effort involved / value-added” while I’m talking about “readership and impact”. I think it’s a whole separate discussion as to which particular metric LW should optimize for.
Website admins, by the way, should be able to produce number of unique views per post fairly easily.
What I meant by that is that it seems unlikely to me that someone would identify “I did X because of Karma, and X is something I endorse” as karmawhoring. So, by definition, doing karmawhoring is unlikely to be a good strategy- like murder is guaranteed to be illegal, but killing is murkier.
To me, value-added is basically readership and impact, except with the readers giving some feedback on whether the impact was positive or negative. If you get a lot of people to read a random string of characters, and so you waste part of their day, this is a loss over those people not noticing a random string of characters that you generated.
That section was mostly the empirical claim that number of comments is a bad proxy for the value generated by the post, whether you use karma or readership or some other metric. I mean, if you want more comments in your posts, put in more typos (in order to not annoy your readers, have only one typo, and when someone comments with a fix, edit in a new typo), or instigate political fights in the comments.