There were many subreddits that did not allow participation unless someone had a karma over a certain threshold. For many of them the threshold was pretty low, only meant to stop brand new accounts and trolls, but still.
Additionally, the “people who farmed it” often did so because a reddit account with a high karma score was literally worth money to adspammers and people running bots.
The karma system contributed to what made reddit bad.
They are talking about karma as a thing you could collect, point totals for all posts added together displayed on your profile. Not the voting mechanism itself.
Fixing our emissions problem absolutely is the most important part, but technology for ecology restoration is ALSO very important. There are things (quite possibly the survival of many species of coral) that are already gone or past the point of no return, that are necessary to fix or replace to prevent further collapse of ecosystems. And don’t downplay the effort and work done by biologists and ecologists to save individual species, it is difficult and often underappreciated.
I love the comic strip and am looking forward to this.
But apple tv? That sucks. For them, mostly, I’m just gunna have to pirate it.
Me, when I’m trying to write on a piece of paper in my hand instead of on a flat surface
Also how do you not realize how asinine you sound???
“She said she can code in 5 languages! That’s crazy, she probably isn’t a master in all 5 of those languages possibly! That means she is a liar! I’M RIGHT! I’M RIGHT! I’M RIGHT!”
Lmao proof positive that you are just an asshole gatekeeper. Probably sexist too, despite your claim otherwise, since you are so determined to put her down.
I haven’t been coding for any years, I’m not in CS. You being a gatekeeper probably means you think I should’t even be allowed to comment in this thread at all. I do have many people in my life who are in CS and discuss it with them regularly. (I hope you don’t mind how vague I’m being, don’t want too much identifying information)
The original claim in the post was just “can code in”, and you made unnecessary disparaging comments implying she was a liar and inexperienced, just like the assholes in the screenshot, because you got your panties in a twist that anyone DARE claim a skill in something you do without your approval. It then turned into a stupid back and forth where you constantly changed how experienced you expected her to be to meet your criteria.
That kind of behavior pisses me the fuck off. Let people do and enjoy things, don’t gatekeep, and don’t act like you are certain of something just because of what you think is “likely” in your limited worldview.
You still don’t actually have proof she doesn’t know java and C++ but you don’t care, apparently as long as you say it enough that is good enough for you.
I flat out don’t agree that knowing 5 languages is ridiculous. It is your opinion.
I’m only still here because you are being a gatekeeping asshole, and because of your constant abuses of the word “proof”. Just because they aren’t on her stackoverflow doesn’t mean she doesn’t know them. You think it is impossible for her to know 5 programming languages (and constantly redefine “know” in that context) and have claimed so without proof.
You are wasting your own time by “chatting” on lemmy, don’t try to put that shit on me.
Fyi DMs on lemmy don’t have the best privacy. Don’t think of them as private.
But you sure like to make the big claims despite your convenient issue with providing anything to back them up. Maybe don’t act like a rude gatekeeping “expert” if you aren’t even willing to provide credentials.
I never accused you of claiming to be an expert in 5 languages without evidence. I accused you of claiming to be an expert in programming (“…and as an expert in programming I recognize that.”) Without proof. Why does she need proof for her claim and you don’t for yours? Your claim seems bigger, claiming to be an expert in the whole of programming.
No, you claimed that, over and over and over, with no evidence. You linked a video about how people generally become masters at things, argued she (probably) hasn’t put in that amount of time (despite evidence to the contrary), then you made some equally unsubstantiated claims about the exact amount of years it supposedly takes to learn java and c++, and again argued (despite evidence to the contrary) that she hasn’t had to time to learn those either.
I’m just doing to you what you are doing to her. Did it get through? Is it annoying to deal with your own bullshit?
You haven’t proven shit. Just because those two aren’t on her stackoverflow doesn’t mean she doesn’t know them. You really have no concept of how evidence and proof work.
Prove you have been in this field, for even 5 minutes. Where is your stackoverflow page?
You rest your case? Oh well thats good, that means you’ll stop making ridiculous claims about her for no reason. Bye!
But when people showed you she has been programming since she was 12 and absolutely has had the time to put in, you just don’t believe it.
I don’t see how that addresses any of what I said. If anything this seems like this would mean the subreddits that blocked people with no karma weren’t even doing it to block trolls, just new users.
I didn’t care about my karma or any specific persons, I like to get into arguments about stuff and that is how you get downvoted. I just don’t like the behaviour a karma system motivated.