Nobody in the real world cares about this though. The only context in which this pyramid has has any veracity is in the extremely rare case where you have a group of people who are interested in useful outcome.

Generally, people argue for the appearance of having won, so will resort to any and all measures regardless of their argumentative quality. In fact, the lower below the belt you can go, the more you will resonate with the layman.

Ah I see, so here, any ‘karma’ that is accrued is essentially just local to the thread and used to rank and sort comments therein.

Give it time, man.

Can someone explain how Jerboa up/downvotes aren’t karma? I don’t quite understand how karma isn’t already a thing here.

Everywhere Reddit goes, it takes the cringe with it, it seems.

He also continues to stick the boot into Spez and Reddit to this day.