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Originally Posted by rkomar
On the topic of karma, I find that when I read a comment I really like and decide to give someone some karma, I'll usually back out of it if I see that they already have vastly more karma than I do. It would feel like trying to slip a millionaire a $1 tip for being nice. I know it's silly, that all karma is appreciated, but it's a feeling that's hard to shake. Does anyone else have the same hang-up?
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Originally Posted by Billi
I have it, and I also know it's silly, but nevertheless. On the other side I felt very touched at the occasions when I got 2 karma points by some newbie. I found this sooo nice!
And another thought: rkomar, following your very helpful posts in the Pocketbook subforum and comparing your karma points with those of many others here around let's me think one more time how very much this fine karma idea goes wrong these days.
One of my alltime favourite posts in this forum:
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I think that at the moment I have one of the highest k points in MR. Then I am a multimillionaire. So what. Soon several, then many will have more then me. So what. It is like the clothes they put on or the makeup. Does it matter? Not very much to me that I have keen eyes, and enough imagination.
But the appreciation, the smiles, the puns, the personal touch, the playfulness behind a karma that is given, especially so if it is for something that I put some thought in, that is where the real pleasure is. I remember when I started, that one of the moderators wrote that were the small k's of a newbie that gave him most pleasure. It's true. I experience the same. Of course an old friend winking at me is a very pleasant thing also.
Also, sometime I get myself in trouble in a discussion, then a k arrives in support. Well, that makes me feel very warm. It encourages me to keep it up, being foolish and being controversial. Being funny, cynical, sentimental. All these things together. Lombard tradition.
The inflation of k changed the scale, that's for sure. But I think it positive that there is a much larger k volume going around. It makes contacts more lively. And that I think is the purpose, not so much the ranking. Ranking of what?