I feel a strong urge to „use“ these points up that HN has granted me. I simply dont feel like collecting them. Its a bit like a social credit score and i dont like the idea. Do you love your points and want more?
I do love my points. Getting flagged ruins my day. Getting down voted annoys me.<p>On the other hand, trying to get upvoted seems like the path to groupthink.<p>On another hand, looking at some user ID you've just voted on is interesting, seeing if their comments are always in the same vein, always on a single topic. If most/a lot of a use ID's comments are flagged or even dead, that interests me, too. Is that person just as big a nitwit in real life?
I think every so often somebody gets pissed at me and starts downvoting a bunch of my comments and realizes pretty quickly there's no point. Every so often I seem to get a similar "stick" of upvotes too. I have no fear of making the occasional shitpost.<p>I have other haters who spin weird stories about me [1] and I think there are some folks (not sure if they are haters or not) who post things to provoke me, like back when I was talking a lot about my cat Bob B people would post articles about how you shouldn't try to catch a feral cat.<p>So far I think nobody knows how to respond to my fox thing now though.<p>[1] including one that claims to be an LLM but writes as if it had about 500 parameters