I somewhat see where you're coming from, but this definition of "malice" appears to me to take the word "malice" rather too far from conventional English usage for usefulness in communication to others. Conventional usage includes gross negligence where the agent knew or should have known of the consequences.
but this definition of "malice" appears to me to take the word "malice" rather too far from conventional English usage for usefulness in communication to others.
You are mistaken. I provided the standard English definition, correcting your somewhat misleading usage. Maliciousness refers either to taking pleasure in the thought of someone coming to harm or the deliberate intent to do said harm.
Reference to google: define confirms this. The exhaustive list of non tautological (that more than simply refer from 'maliciousness' to 'malice...
I just noticed that calcsam, who just posted two top posts in the main section of the site, only has the 100 karma that he has, so far, gained from those posts.
I don't object to those posts being there, but how did he do that?
Edit: Question answered; Eliezer mucked around with the karma system to make this possible in this specific case.