[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2026-1...
Rando here. It gives a signal on the account’s other comments, as well as the value of the original comment (as a hypothesis, albeit a wrong one, versus blind raging).
fair enough. i typically use karma as a rough proxy for that, especially when the user has a lot of it (like, in this case, where the poster is #17 on the leaderboard with 100,000+ karma). you dont get that much karma if you are consistently posting bad takes.
>as well as the value of the original comment (as a hypothesis, albeit a wrong one, versus blind raging).
i dont see, in this case anyways, how or why that distinction would matter or change anything (in this case specifically, what would you change or do differently if it was a hypothesis or simple "raging"?), but im probably just thinking about it incorrectly.
just like you were genuinely trying to understand where pjmlp was coming from, i was genuinely trying to understand what you would get out of an answer to your question (or, like, what the next reply could even be other than "ok, cool").
I wonder how true that is. While this site doesn't have incentivize engagement-maximizing behaviour (posting ragebait) like some other sites do, I would imagine that simply posting more is the best way to accrue karma long-term.
i definitely agree, which is why i use it as a rough proxy rather than ground truth, but i have my doubts that you can casually "post more" your way into the top 20 karma users of all time.