I actually agree with @Vladimir_Nesov’s reply to my initial comment (and wasn’t planning to reply at all until I read this, haha). I have now used reactions to indicate precisely how I feel about it.
Re-reading my own comment, I definitely didn’t intend to “implicitly valorize effort”, so if people were reading it that way, the correction / clarification was helpful.
I was more trying to say: comments and threads with the highest ROI for the reader are often not the ones with the most karma, so readers may benefit from making some effort to seek out high-value content in less-obvious places (e.g. nested comment threads, replies to less popular posts). But I’m not trying to valorize that effort either, just pointing it out as something that exists and which can have a distorting effect on karma sometimes.
I actually agree with @Vladimir_Nesov’s reply to my initial comment (and wasn’t planning to reply at all until I read this, haha). I have now used reactions to indicate precisely how I feel about it.
Re-reading my own comment, I definitely didn’t intend to “implicitly valorize effort”, so if people were reading it that way, the correction / clarification was helpful.
I was more trying to say: comments and threads with the highest ROI for the reader are often not the ones with the most karma, so readers may benefit from making some effort to seek out high-value content in less-obvious places (e.g. nested comment threads, replies to less popular posts). But I’m not trying to valorize that effort either, just pointing it out as something that exists and which can have a distorting effect on karma sometimes.