Every time I get a snarky, rude and shitty response from a user. 9 times out of 10 it is from users with hundreds to thousands of pointless karma points. My best guess is that it has really all gone to their heads and because of their high count, they think they’re speaking the golden words of the gospel with every comment that they make.
That nothing can touch them and that they’re validated so they can’t be argued against.
Your account is an hour old and Lemmy doesn’t have Karma…
So did you make a post complaining about Reddit and just forget youre not on Reddit?
If you go to their instance you’ll see that is does list it in users’ profiles (Reputation points).
Really? I can’t see yours.
I am on Lemmy, OP is not:
https://kbin.melroy.org/u/Pyrin
Lemmy is a great opportunity to ignore karma. So ignore it.
Sir, this is lemmy
Its because the more you read and comment the less patience you have.
It might be your first time saying something stupid but for someone who has been on the community for a long time they may have seen the comment hundreds or thousands of times and are to tired to give it a soft understanding response. Mix in the fact that some people making the “stupid” comments are intentional and malicious in their intent and you end up getting old-head users who come off bitter and snarky.
Do you check in on the profiles to see the karma count of people who you feel have a neutral or even positive personality?
Probably not. So you have no idea how the average person with “lots of ‘karma points’” tends to act. Instead, you’re looking at the profile of people who feel safe enough in a space to let themselves be seen as assholes.
This is like asking “why does drinking alcohol make everyone violent?” You’re just noticing the ones who are making a scene.
Yup. Huge selection bias.
The people bothering to post random negative comments arealso likely to have too much time om their hands, leading them to post a lot inn general. But there are also plenty of nice people woth too much time on their hands.
Because to get lots of karma (karma being bad because you spend all your waking hours online) you need to be terminally online, and engaged with posting only the content the majority agree with, common karma winners are: cat pictures, political opinions supporting what’s trending in a given community, using bots to upvote you, getting admins/mods to give you karma. Can’t think of anything else I never used reddit.
We have known karma scores here?
Egotistical assholes gain attention more than regular commentators.
Internet culture rewards the loud, obnoxious, and offensive with attention and engagement. Advertisers like attention and engagement, so they financially back the loud, obnoxious, and offensive.
This is why it’s so prevalent on social media.
Sometimes people be buying accounts that have farmed karma too.
Same as on stackoverflow, they’re playing the game of “get all the points”. Meanwhile don’t give a bleep about the social part of social media.
I think it’s more because those people don’t have a life outside their computer, and some of them have poor social skills and inflated ego from knowing a bit about computers.
If you spend all your time on the internet, and specially social media, you get a warped view of reality.
But it’s hard to get proper friends for a lot of people. I understand why the internet becomes a substitute.
I check a lot of those boxes but have never had many points on most websites. The difference I think is that I don’t often make posts/threads (comments alone usually don’t get as many views/points, posts may get thousands of points).
Those with the most points often make posts multiple times an hour (often a dozen posts in a day) particularly if they become “known” for some theme/gimmick (which may add to ego). Also at that point they likely have parasocial users backing up their ego and buffoonery.
I don’t know if any of those “no life” people are behind this or not. I suspect people posting like this, especially when it is blog-like (their job, some other interaction) are likely normal outgoing people who just have their phone with them to post whenever they have a spare moment. It may even be a similar archetype to “influencer” (one unlikely to show their face) especially if they are saving many things ahead of time to post later. That, and the inevitable monetization even if it’s just gifts/favors from strangers.
I just wish they would be nicer. If it is like you say, and they are social, I wonder why they act like shit heads online. :)
Because they’ve learned to write responses in ways that get them lots of ego rubs
The medium is the message.
Someone who is good at social media is good at what social media rewards.
Ego. A narcissist.
