It’s not that you don’t have to track those points in the meeting as part of your decision. You definitely do. It’s that if the primary reason you’re doing anything in the meeting is so that you can maximize various point totals to seem like a good meeting-attender, then the meeting is no longer serving its original intended purpose and you’re stuck in a signaling nightmare (and likely a moral maze). Remember that (almost) everyone hates meetings and wants to avoid them. Being caught in a continuous permanently-available meeting of that type seems like something to avoid.
I do agree that we want there to be jokes when they are high-value and not when they are low-value, like most other things, but I’d like this to be about questions like “will this help this discussion accomplish something worthwhile and illustrate the questions involved?” and “is it funny and therefore Worth It to tell this?”
In terms of the answer I gave earlier, I totally stand by that—losing a little karma is a (small) price of a negative dopamine hit and a small hit to total karma, and the karma gives the message that the question was annoying so they can update that they’re imposing real costs, and sometimes it’s worth imposing real costs and taking small status hits to do things anyway. I was more pushing back against this idea that “If you get negative karma on a post/comment you should react as if this is a crisis situation and you are bad and should feel bad.”
It’s not that you don’t have to track those points in the meeting as part of your decision. You definitely do. It’s that if the primary reason you’re doing anything in the meeting is so that you can maximize various point totals to seem like a good meeting-attender, then the meeting is no longer serving its original intended purpose and you’re stuck in a signaling nightmare (and likely a moral maze). Remember that (almost) everyone hates meetings and wants to avoid them. Being caught in a continuous permanently-available meeting of that type seems like something to avoid.
I do agree that we want there to be jokes when they are high-value and not when they are low-value, like most other things, but I’d like this to be about questions like “will this help this discussion accomplish something worthwhile and illustrate the questions involved?” and “is it funny and therefore Worth It to tell this?”
In terms of the answer I gave earlier, I totally stand by that—losing a little karma is a (small) price of a negative dopamine hit and a small hit to total karma, and the karma gives the message that the question was annoying so they can update that they’re imposing real costs, and sometimes it’s worth imposing real costs and taking small status hits to do things anyway. I was more pushing back against this idea that “If you get negative karma on a post/comment you should react as if this is a crisis situation and you are bad and should feel bad.”