army1987 comments on Rationality Quotes April 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 19 April 2012 05:07:55PM 1 point [-]

You need to come up with a detailed written strategy for maximizing karma with minimal actual contribution.

Create a dozen sockpuppet accounts and use them to upvote every single one of your posts. Duh.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 22 April 2012 07:15:27PM 5 points [-]

That's like getting a black belt in karate by buying one from the martial arts shop. It isn't karmawhoring unless you're getting karma from real people who really thought your comments worth upvoting.

Comment author: [deleted] 23 April 2012 06:55:47PM 1 point [-]

“Getting karma from real people who really thought your comments worth upvoting” sounds like a good thing, so why the (apparently) derogatory term karmawhoring?

Comment author: RichardKennaway 23 April 2012 07:14:54PM *  5 points [-]

It is good to have one's comments favourably appreciated by real people. Chasing after that appreciation, not so much. Especially, per an ancestor comment, trying to achieve that proxy measure of value while minimizing the actual value of what you are posting. The analogy with prostitution is close, although one difference is that the prostitute's reward -- money -- is of some actual use.

Comment author: Strange7 21 April 2012 07:25:11AM 5 points [-]

Not as straightforward as it sounds. Irrelevant one-sentence comments upvoted to +10 will attract more downvotes than they would otherwise.

Comment author: Bugmaster 19 April 2012 05:29:21PM 1 point [-]

This would indeed count as "minimal contribution", but still sounds like a lot of work...