Re:Propose HN: 'Countless' experiment – hiding all karmic in...
by ansible on Thursday April 25, 2019 @07:37PM
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> If their comments are consistently good then they should stand on their own merit. Else you just get idol worship and groupthink.
> Names are not as useful as you think.
Ummm... no.
I don't have the time and desire to completely verify everything that everyone says in every forum that I look at.
I doubt that anyone has time for that.
So I will use shortcuts, as does every other human on the planet. One of these shortcuts is reputation.
If someone has a good reputation with me, then that increases the credulity of everything they say. That doesn't mean that if one of the commentators I hold in high opinion says that "Goblins are behind the election hacking" I will just believe it.
However, if one of these highly-esteemed commentators has an opinion about Docker vs. CoreOS Rkt, I will likely take them at their word, if it isn't a critical issue. This doesn't obviate me from doing my on research on technology decisions, but can help guide my efforts.
I don't worship anyone or anything. Everyone's going to be wrong about something, but some are right more often than others, and should be given some benefit of the doubt.
> Names are not as useful as you think.
Ummm... no.
I don't have the time and desire to completely verify everything that everyone says in every forum that I look at.
I doubt that anyone has time for that.
So I will use shortcuts, as does every other human on the planet. One of these shortcuts is reputation.
If someone has a good reputation with me, then that increases the credulity of everything they say. That doesn't mean that if one of the commentators I hold in high opinion says that "Goblins are behind the election hacking" I will just believe it.
However, if one of these highly-esteemed commentators has an opinion about Docker vs. CoreOS Rkt, I will likely take them at their word, if it isn't a critical issue. This doesn't obviate me from doing my on research on technology decisions, but can help guide my efforts.
I don't worship anyone or anything. Everyone's going to be wrong about something, but some are right more often than others, and should be given some benefit of the doubt.