There were many subreddits that did not allow participation unless someone had a karma over a certain threshold. For many of them the threshold was pretty low, only meant to stop brand new accounts and trolls, but still.
Additionally, the “people who farmed it” often did so because a reddit account with a high karma score was literally worth money to adspammers and people running bots.
The karma system contributed to what made reddit bad.
They are talking about karma as a thing you could collect, point totals for all posts added together displayed on your profile. Not the voting mechanism itself.
The most convincing argument that elon does a lot of cocaine is just listening to him speak in a less formal interview.
BUT! I don’t think he used to be actually smart, just lucky. Too many people assume “succesful” people had to have done something exceptional to earn it, but 99% of extremely wealthy people acquired that extreme wealth through a simple combination of luck and startup capital (which of course they have because they are lucky).
Doesn’t reddit not make money though? Like, if traffic resulted in them making money, I’d agree, but everything I’ve heard would indicate using reddit with an adblocker literally costs them money.
Exclusively using reddit to protest should be fine IMO, just don’t contribute anything that isn’t a protest (including voting)
Lmao proof positive that you are just an asshole gatekeeper. Probably sexist too, despite your claim otherwise, since you are so determined to put her down.
I haven’t been coding for any years, I’m not in CS. You being a gatekeeper probably means you think I should’t even be allowed to comment in this thread at all. I do have many people in my life who are in CS and discuss it with them regularly. (I hope you don’t mind how vague I’m being, don’t want too much identifying information)
The original claim in the post was just “can code in”, and you made unnecessary disparaging comments implying she was a liar and inexperienced, just like the assholes in the screenshot, because you got your panties in a twist that anyone DARE claim a skill in something you do without your approval. It then turned into a stupid back and forth where you constantly changed how experienced you expected her to be to meet your criteria.
That kind of behavior pisses me the fuck off. Let people do and enjoy things, don’t gatekeep, and don’t act like you are certain of something just because of what you think is “likely” in your limited worldview.
I flat out don’t agree that knowing 5 languages is ridiculous. It is your opinion.
I never accused you of claiming to be an expert in 5 languages without evidence. I accused you of claiming to be an expert in programming (“…and as an expert in programming I recognize that.”) Without proof. Why does she need proof for her claim and you don’t for yours? Your claim seems bigger, claiming to be an expert in the whole of programming.
I’m just doing to you what you are doing to her. Did it get through? Is it annoying to deal with your own bullshit?
Prove you have been in this field, for even 5 minutes. Where is your stackoverflow page?
No, sorry, prove you are an “expert in programming”. You won’t read her stackoverflow page or make the effort to read and judge any of the evidence you have been sent on the matter, so I will extend no courtesy to you as far as trusting your qualifications. Prove it.
As far as I’m concerned you are a know-nothing troll trying to sound smart and put people down. Prove otherwise.
You are just moving the goalpost… Before you said “So yeah, “hello world” and loops it’s.” Claiming she was basically a beginner or hobbyist. Now you are arguing she isn’t an “expert” and define expert at the absolute far right side of the bell curve. Why does it matter to you so much that she not get recognition for her work?
Only if you don’t clean them in my experience, and they aren’t particularly hard to clean. Just give em as good scrub when you clean the shower.
You can get shower mats with brush parts. No need to fold yourself in half, just shuffle your feet.
Who the fuck are you? Don’t talk to me, I have never wanted to communicate with you about anything at any point, fuck off
Allow me to be more clear
“Fuck off” means “stop talking to me, leave, and preferably do not come back”
So I will reiterate: Fuck off
I don’t see how that addresses any of what I said. If anything this seems like this would mean the subreddits that blocked people with no karma weren’t even doing it to block trolls, just new users.
I didn’t care about my karma or any specific persons, I like to get into arguments about stuff and that is how you get downvoted. I just don’t like the behaviour a karma system motivated.