If not, who does it harm?
It's noise and so harms everyone who is actually looking for information or whose time has value.
Imagine if I started to post random extracts from Wikipedia onto LW. You argument would apply to them as well, would it not?
Sorry, I had the impression that my posts were more helpful than unhelpful because my karma balance is above zero.
I'm not confident I'm interpreting karma right however since I rarely see upvoted posts but see many downvoted posts.
There is also evidence suggesting I am misinterpreting karma and that it is around zero:
...don't know exactly who you're supposed to persuade, but your track record so far on LessWrong shows that you barely manage to break even with your karma, and that you lack the level of self-awareness of a socially well-adapted person. Whoev
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
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