To keep positive karma? Absolutely not. Upvotes are more frequent here than downvotes.
Articles are judged more harshly than comments, because there is the “does this deserve to be a separate article, instead of a comment in Open Thread?” factor. And karma gains/loses from an article are greater than from a comment.
Let me put it this way:
You wrote an article with strong questionable claims, ...that you admit are just random stuff which would work only through chance, ...and you also admit it is poorly written and edited, ...touching a politicized topic, which is kind of a taboo here,
...and your total karma is still positive, despite the losses from this article.
To me it seems that getting negative karma requires a lot of work. (Okay, we have a successful example in this very thread, but that is a rare situation.)
Wait a bit please—is nerdiness politicized now? Or is rather, you mention anything related to social gender (terms like “masculine”) and it is automatically politicized? This really raises the question to what extent you want the personal become political. I rather would not want this.
There was a man who said “anything that affects a lot of people is political”. But that man was Janos Kadar, a bolshevik dictator…
To keep positive karma? Absolutely not. Upvotes are more frequent here than downvotes.
Articles are judged more harshly than comments, because there is the “does this deserve to be a separate article, instead of a comment in Open Thread?” factor. And karma gains/loses from an article are greater than from a comment.
Let me put it this way:
You wrote an article with strong questionable claims,
...that you admit are just random stuff which would work only through chance,
...and you also admit it is poorly written and edited,
...touching a politicized topic, which is kind of a taboo here,
...and your total karma is still positive, despite the losses from this article.
To me it seems that getting negative karma requires a lot of work. (Okay, we have a successful example in this very thread, but that is a rare situation.)
Wait a bit please—is nerdiness politicized now? Or is rather, you mention anything related to social gender (terms like “masculine”) and it is automatically politicized? This really raises the question to what extent you want the personal become political. I rather would not want this.
There was a man who said “anything that affects a lot of people is political”. But that man was Janos Kadar, a bolshevik dictator…