Yup. It also gives people a slight impression that the comment was mildly unpopular - not sure what effect that has - and, this is the big one, means that I can't downvote because of anti-troll measures. Which, of course, I always forget, which is annoying.
OK, so it's not that bad. Still.
But believe it or not, I actually set up another account under a different name and posted some constructive comments to give it a positive karma score (I had a vague plan to use it for stuff that was more affected than average?) Something I said gave it away, at the same time I discovered this wasn't a one-off thing on my regular account.
Or, alternatively, I'm so annoying that I was both the first and second people to be karmassasinated (AFAICT). Can't forget that possibility.
People want to tell everything instead of telling the best 15 words. They want to learn everything instead of the best 15 words. In this thread, instead post the best 15-words from a book you've read recently (or anything else). It has to stand on its own. It's not a summary, the whole value needs to be contained in those words.
I'll start in the comments below.
(Voted by the Schelling study group as the best exercise of the meeting.)