Comment on Ask PG: Any chance of an update on "What I've learned from Hacker News"?parentComments−breckinloggins14yCompromise: how about showing points on comments but only after you yourself have accumulated a significant number of points?−politician14yUp-voted with a challenge: of what value is seeing comment points except stroking your own ego when your or your friends or people-you-always-agree-with comments' are voted up?−breckinloggins14yOf none whatsoever; but ego can be a great motivator.The problem isn't being motivated by ego, it's being motivated by ego before you've proven to others that you can handle the responsibility. :)
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Compromise: how about showing points on comments but only after you yourself have accumulated a significant number of points?
Up-voted with a challenge: of what value is seeing comment points except stroking your own ego when your or your friends or people-you-always-agree-with comments' are voted up?
Of none whatsoever; but ego can be a great motivator.
The problem isn't being motivated by ego, it's being motivated by ego before you've proven to others that you can handle the responsibility. :)