matt comments on Melbourne Meetup: Friday 6th May, 6pm - Less Wrong

8 Post author: matt 27 April 2011 11:59PM

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Comment author: matt 29 April 2011 06:12:15AM 2 points [-]

No no no - don't give me karma for a meetup post! I want my karma to mean more than that :)

Comment author: childofbaud 30 April 2011 07:03:18AM *  1 point [-]

I think your modesty is unwarranted. :-)

Meetups have the potential to lead to a lot of updating, positive feedback loops, and other real benefits for the attendees. I suspect that very few comments on this site, even the higher rated ones, can match them in that regard.

A little positive feedback and appreciation for the organizers has the potential to go a long way, so that they have some additional payoff for continuing to deal with the tedious logistics.

Plus, karma stands for a thousand different things already. Adding one more meaning to the list doesn't make much of a difference with such a conflated concept.

Comment author: shokwave 03 May 2011 06:51:28AM 0 points [-]

Voted down to cancel out some of the unwanted karma.

:P

Comment author: [deleted] 30 April 2011 07:17:38AM 0 points [-]

Nerdy groups tend to value nothing but intelligence.

Comment author: David_Gerard 30 April 2011 07:21:27AM 0 points [-]

It's karma for organising and posting. That is, the people voting up are saying "more like this, please!" The system is working fine ;-)