[Continuing to sound elitist,] I have a related gripe/hot take that comments give people too much karma. I feel like I often see people who are “noisy” in that they comment a lot and have a lot of karma from that,[1] but have few or no valuable posts, and who I also don’t have a memory of reading valuable comments from. It makes me feel incentivized to acquire more of a habit of using LW as a social media feed, rather than just commenting when a thought I have passes my personal bar of feeling useful.
Note that self-karma contributes to a comments position within the sorting, but doesn’t contribute to the karma count on your account, so you can’t get a bunch of karma just by leaving a bunch of comments that no one upvotes. So these people are getting at least a consolation prize upvote from others.
[Continuing to sound elitist,] I have a related gripe/hot take that comments give people too much karma. I feel like I often see people who are “noisy” in that they comment a lot and have a lot of karma from that,[1] but have few or no valuable posts, and who I also don’t have a memory of reading valuable comments from. It makes me feel incentivized to acquire more of a habit of using LW as a social media feed, rather than just commenting when a thought I have passes my personal bar of feeling useful.
Note that self-karma contributes to a comments position within the sorting, but doesn’t contribute to the karma count on your account, so you can’t get a bunch of karma just by leaving a bunch of comments that no one upvotes. So these people are getting at least a consolation prize upvote from others.