"... so now I will jiggle things randomly until they unbreak" is not acceptable'

Re:"... so now I will jiggle things randomly until they unbr... by trotsky on Thursday April 21, 2011 @09:27AM (#2470515)

Hmm, I'm somewhat surprised to hear this description of karma. Does this mean people click through on a username to discover their karma score before deciding if they should believe or agree with what has been written?

It seems pretty clear to me that karma mostly measures the amount of time spent commenting. An interesting metric, but not one I would look to to predict comment quality.

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Re:"... so now I will jiggle things randomly until they unbr... by brk on Thursday April 21, 2011 @09:45AM (#2470571)

There have been times that I personally have seen a less-than-elegant comment from a new (to me) username. So, I check out the persons profile, look at their karma, other comments, submissions, etc., and then reply/vote/whatever.

Not very frequently, but one or two times a month maybe.

Could be just me...

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Re:"... so now I will jiggle things randomly until they unbr... by trotsky on Thursday April 21, 2011 @09:53AM (#2470603)

So if they had a lot of karma would you change the opinion you had formed about the idea/whatever?

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Re:"... so now I will jiggle things randomly until they unbr... by brk on Thursday April 21, 2011 @12:10PM (#2471160)

I tend to maintain a neutral opinion and use additional input to come to an absolute conclusion.

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