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The by far quickest method to increase reputation is to post in the politics/controversy forums.
I rarely get points for posting in "benign" threads but when I participate in the politics section I usually get upvoted.
So this selects for "strong" opinions that many feel are inappropriate/rude/awful. It's easily possible to crank up your reputation with "unsavory" behavior.
Yes, I recently found out about this feature. There are some who I feel are much, much worse than others, so not everybody I disagree with philosophically deserves to be blocked. But there are some posters who seem to routinely post rude gibberish, as in I can’t even make out what they are trying to convey. Their logic doesn’t make any sense. But then I’ll see they have 8500 reps with 5000 posts. And I’m just like huh?... How did that happen?
One rep seems to increase one's rep score by 5 or so points, although I've noticed that I've gotten less points for different reps, so I'm not exactly sure what the formula is. But 8,500 rep points does not equal 8,500 individual reps--you can at least take solace in that, eh.
Birds of feather flock together
People on the far right Rep each other
People on the far left Rep each other
Problem is, nobody wants to admit when they are wrong even when presented with facts. We did have a number of Alt Right poster that "Stormed" this website but they are mostly gone now.
Am I wrong about people? Do most actually admire people with these sorts of traits? Why do you think this is the case? Is this a forum thing? Because I feel like people who act this way in real life are usually called out and put in their place, definitely not respected or admired for this behavior.
In message boards I expect to see a rough microcosm of society. My experience in our society is that bullies are loved and coddled, and that those who take stands against them embarrass everyone who does not, thus the latter group doubles down in bully support. There is a reason I have an enormous ignore list, because most forums have a forum jerk who loves nothing more than to feel he has scored a point or belittled someone.
I think you’ve done a fine job articulating my observations. Agreed with you about the differences here compared to reddit. The nasty trolls are usually put in their place by being downvoted. Obviously there are unintended consequences to that system, because people abuse it and downvote anything they disagree with whether it was a valid point or not. But here, it does seem the system allows it to be far more skewed towards this crowd than the moderate or more empathetic posters.
Empathy can be tough to find on the Internet. Thanks to fantasy football, I've been reminded in recent weeks that Yahoo comment sections seem to be among the worst. They have upvoting and downvoting there, but if you're looking to make some crudely expressed bigoted/reactionary there's always an understanding audience there, and plenty of upvotes will be headed your way
In message boards I expect to see a rough microcosm of society. My experience in our society is that bullies are loved and coddled, and that those who take stands against them embarrass everyone who does not, thus the latter group doubles down in bully support.
Yeah, I think this is closer to being true than the OP's assertion that obnoxiously self-aggrandizing behavior is typically not rewarded in real life.
Yea you can be honest without being a jerk. But the example you gave is a bit over the the top. Really - who is going to speak like that on the forums?
'I appreciate your comment, but I don't agree with your assessment' is over the top? Sounds pretty standard to me, assuming the person writing is capable of employing some tact (a bit of an ambitious assumption to be sure). But that suggested phrasing seemed like a plausible enough suggestion to me that I actually thought you were referencing a different comment he had made, despite the fact that you bolded the sentence in question, heh.
OP,
One's *rude gibberish* is another's straight forward, non candy coated, non politically correct, truth as they know it.
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