Habra, karma, ad hominem, leveling and heavy legacy of the developed socialism

Introduction

Article inspired me to write this: habrahabr.ru/post/233895

Direct address: chabry admin, please don't break us catmachine crackdown! Give shake.

And now theses:
— evaluation of materials is the evaluation of personality;
— the problem with participation in the active life of the community;
— fear and unwillingness to write articles;
— fun factor.
— karma and scoop in the minds of the wrong egalitarianism.
— > > the state.

Before moving to them I recall an instructive story about the great outcome from one famous site to another. The story is well-illustrated by the following picture:



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materials Evaluation instead of individual evaluation

There is one important thing that unites mailing lists (lkml, freebsd, apache, etc.), or RFD. Slashdot, Reddit, freenode and other similar resources. It consists that is estimated not people, and his contributions. Somewhere it is valued magically-useless Internet points, in other places go without it, but the essence is the same: the contribution is assessed separately from the person who made it.

In contrast to the egalitarianism described below, the equalization is correct: by writing something in the theme community importance, and only what man has written. Gender, race, nationality, religious beliefs, social status, etc. do not matter. No. At all. If you're a weirdo from Nizhny Tagil (sorry Tailcone, mentioned your town solely for the sake of rhyme) walking in a skirt and living on the neck of his wife, if you got a good patch then it will consider if you ask a competent question to answer, if you've answered the question — you say thank you.

Is a global this principle is very important — is evaluated not the person, and what is done. And all.

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Problem with participation in the active living community

In the newsletter may write, generally, any. In the servers. was similar. On Slashdot registration is simple and can just comment. On Reddit for registration, even mail is not needed, enter the username and password and all you can write. Frieda generally available through webcat even not need to register.

Hence the interesting observation that even the developers of large, complex pieces known to do without fencing. Let us ask ourselves a question: what is fencing generally can be necessary? Why it is possible in principle to do? Just for instance, considerations could include:
1. Screening unwanted participants.
2. Improving the quality of the materials due to the fact that they engage only those who have in some way earned that right. For example, in the sandbox.

Why those views are wrong:
1. Screening well is recruited from the community moderators. Competent moderators with huge banhammer but without a syndrome janitor and as experience shows, are there a lot of the success of self-regulation in the matter of admission to the community is bad.

Why, Oh why is it running bad? And here's why.

Let's say I mega-specialist, know your area like no other. Lazily sipping a beer and reading the mailing list are keeping an eye on the Internet and see an article from your field. I go to her, you know that I have something to say on the subject, and even willing to bother by using perelozhenie regwall, the only question is the height of it. Come up with a username, enter email... And then HOP! This not-to-hundred-exactly! Realizing that habré regwall very, very high, I spit and I'm going to continue to drink beer and shoot the breeze about my topic in mailing list.

2. Again, from a specialist in the preceding example will give up and go write more free resource, his blog or somewhere else. Not working fencing, wherever you spit.

In summary:
is lost good people that could say something important and interesting case

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Fear and reluctance to write articles and comments

Again, imagine our mega-specialist. He can write an article in English online or at a blog. But he's Russian and wants to write in Russian, and he wants to write in a great community. Went on Habr, looked at the registration system, spat and left. Or even wrote a controversial article or just not like someone and his karma have merged. He can't write. Like it or not, it's a shame all the same, but voted for article 50 in favor, 60 against, and karma Yes, again, only in the negative. Or even wrote in another article a contradictory comment, again, was not even vs all, 50 vs 60, and again karma have merged. Assessment, then personality and not her merits. Spat it and left. Forever.

Small loss? Nothing of the sort. Big.

So he is not alone, such a lot of them. And all these people Habr lost.

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Fun factor

There is only one: to participate in community life should be nice. Errors need to say goodbye. Should not be a wild pain in a certain place just because someone you don't like it. Concrete frames should not be. A little off topic is better than a lot of gone forever.

The picture at the beginning of the article just about this and about what happens when it is written in this section is forgotten.

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Karma and scoop in the minds of the wrong egalitarianism

As I said come out, there are two kinds of egalitarianism. Egalitarianism is correct, only when the estimated input, and equalization is incorrect, when the estimated person. I'm just going to quote your comment to the article that inspired me to write this:

here's the thing. For example, I Habr hardly read because of interesting technical articles like these are gaining 40 pros and all. And including why such articles here. I'm not talking about that same amarao get blocked in readonly, and I could not understand what happened to his topics, at first I thought that they are generally rubbed. And many of these cases. Habr, so to speak, fenced. It is a fact. And more. That's the time I have filled your karma blunt translations of the news, entered the then 15 habrahabr top rated for the month. Friends who have written a sufficient number of interesting technical articles were not particularly noticed.

Think about it: habré should be more than a hundred thousand people. Hits each of these articles tens of thousands. And in the end, a quality article that makes it 40 advantages. O RLY? Something's wrong here. And I even have the answer to the question "what". He's like, the official we do in the minds of sitting here with that stupid system of karma which affects the ability to write articles and now m*********** at her.

And MOST IMPORTANTLY:

The karma of kiselka in my opinion nothing wrong with is, BUT turns out bad due to the presence associated with this ciselli stupid restrictions. This makes it in fact an analogue of the argument "ad hominem", "well mug you left, and wrote the article not clear to me, now Minusio and can't write."

In applying this chisaki the main problem, not her. Spoken like a man, karma is not interested, on Habre many years of not writing and possessed at the time of writing this comment a hundred karmalyukove, i.e. how to obtain this cheselka, I know well, and know that the quality of the content it is not relevant.

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> > the state

As a result, under the current system of karma, it turns out the fear. Fear of community, fear is not something to say. Freedom of speech? What are you, what is freedom of speech. Everything is arranged so that it turns out: All stand. All stand. All by the left. All are equal on the left. All double ku do. All double ku do. Write all about Android. Everyone is writing about Android. And so on.

I exaggerate, of course, but the trend is clear.

In normal States there is a separation. The citizens — freedom of speech. And freedom of business. Full. While the laws are not violated. For violating the laws — the police. And on habré as it turns out that these two completely different, even opposite, functions are trying to impose on citizens. And each head is a small country, hence the title.
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Results

1. For the good of the community restrictions on writing articles and commenting harmful, I have tried to illustrate why.
2. With people doing something fundamentally wrong, well versed moderators.
3. No need to assess people. Only need to estimate their contribution. Evaluation of the Sami people is not just unprofitable, but harmful.
4. A huge number of successful communities, working on these principles, show that they are true.

P. S. I Have a LARGE amount of anecdotal evidence for all that is written above.

P. P. S. Forgot important. When evaluating review articles, and demonstrates only the total score. It is fundamentally wrong. There is a huge difference between (+90,-100=-10) and (+0,-10=-10). Especially in the comments it shows. And Yes, I know that you can hover the mouse and show you exactly how much progolosvalo for and against, but it is barely noticeable. Contradictory reviews you need to at least mark in some way.

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