You keep switching back and forth between “is” and “ought” and I think this leads you into error.
The simplest prediction from wedrifid’s high karma is that his comments will be voted up. On the whole, his comments on this thread were voted up. The community normally agrees with him and today it agrees with him. This suggests that he is not behaving differently.
You have been around this community a while and should already have assessed its judgement and the meaning of karma. If you think that the community expresses bad judgement through its karma, then you should not be disappointed in bad behavior by high karma users. (So it would seem rather strange to write the above comment!) If you normally think that the community expresses good judgement through karma, then it is probably expressing similarly good judgement today.
Most likely, the difference is you, that you do not have the distance to adequately judge your interactions. Yes, there are other possibilities; it is also possible that “foom” is a special topic that the community and wedrifid cannot deal with rationally. But is it so likely that they cannot deal with it civilly?
You keep switching back and forth between “is” and “ought” and I think this leads you into error.
The simplest prediction from wedrifid’s high karma is that his comments will be voted up. On the whole, his comments on this thread were voted up. The community normally agrees with him and today it agrees with him. This suggests that he is not behaving differently.
You have been around this community a while and should already have assessed its judgement and the meaning of karma. If you think that the community expresses bad judgement through its karma, then you should not be disappointed in bad behavior by high karma users. (So it would seem rather strange to write the above comment!) If you normally think that the community expresses good judgement through karma, then it is probably expressing similarly good judgement today.
Most likely, the difference is you, that you do not have the distance to adequately judge your interactions. Yes, there are other possibilities; it is also possible that “foom” is a special topic that the community and wedrifid cannot deal with rationally. But is it so likely that they cannot deal with it civilly?