Aside from the pseudo-zed-shaw rant, I think he had a very interesting and enlightening point about the karma-as-video-game problem, and the general less-productive-people-have-more-time-to-influence problem.
I would like to think we solve this here by being too boring for the "Hordes Of Moronic Imbeciles Expressing Their Opinions About You" (his term for it). However, being a jerk to people here and then being smug about it makes it hard not to consider one part of that group.
We need a word for "being a jerk to people here and then being smug about it" online. I think it's basically the same kind of problem as trolling. It doesn't help the signal to noise ratio of a site by generating another bit of rude noise, no matter how emotionally satisfying you think it is at the time.
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Aside from the pseudo-zed-shaw rant, I think he had a very interesting and enlightening point about the karma-as-video-game problem, and the general less-productive-people-have-more-time-to-influence problem.
I would like to think we solve this here by being too boring for the "Hordes Of Moronic Imbeciles Expressing Their Opinions About You" (his term for it). However, being a jerk to people here and then being smug about it makes it hard not to consider one part of that group.
If you don't want to see your own site, block it: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039
We need a word for "being a jerk to people here and then being smug about it" online. I think it's basically the same kind of problem as trolling. It doesn't help the signal to noise ratio of a site by generating another bit of rude noise, no matter how emotionally satisfying you think it is at the time.
> We need a word for "being a jerk to people here and then being smug about it" online.
meta-trolling?