Why is the word "karma" causes hatred on the part of the Habra community?

Question

Habr

Actually, subject.
The question, of course, is extremely dangerous, but still.
UPD . Who thinks that it does not cause - look at the rating of the question :)

Answer 1

Because karma is the assessment of the crowd. And the crowd obeys the 95% rule. Karma forces us to speak and write in a way that would please 95%, and not the remaining 5%. That is, we know that we are behaving and equal to 95%. And it pisses us off.
In real life, we ourselves calculate our karma. That is self-esteem. And it is calculated from the opinions of authoritative (for you people). Nobody pays attention to the opinion of idiots.
For example, 10 girls think you're handsome and want you, while 100 faggots think you're scary. What do you care about the opinion of fagots? Are you happy.
From the point of view of Habr, you will have -90 karma. In terms of the real world, you will have a karma of 10.
This is the difference that infuriates.

Answer 2

Because it is an artificial value that strongly and incorrectly regulates local life.
Personally, she infuriates me, to the point of hatred.

Answer 3

Hate is a big word. That's almost your question: Why is the rating growing, but karma is falling? Substantive question, not rhetorical
I think that the word karma "annoys" some habrausers due to the fact that people who are in a deep minus very often ask for it, promising super content immediately after they get > 5. Although, of course, they plus less than they minus, I made such a conclusion from my posts. Even though I had both topics >60, after the first topic my karma became 4, and after the second 0, provided that 24 people voted, then I write badly ...
Today I saw a question about karma here, for the sake of interest I looked at a person’s profile, there karma was 2 (with 2 votes), in the comments two people wrote that they give him karma, but when I went to his profile I saw that karma is 2 , but there are already 6 votes, so I think it's better not to talk about it, who wants to go to the profile and express their opinion about the person.

Answer 4

Requests to add karma are perceived as begging - “I have been earning mine for years, but he wants to get it for free?! You have a minus!
Mention of little karma causes contempt or embarrassment.
Boasting great karma causes envy.
What's difficult?

Answer 5

We just don't like Buddhism and Hinduism. Nothing unusual. Agnosticism mixed with Christianity - that's the population of habr!

Answer 6

Why? because this is not a very interesting topic for conversation, I hope we still have not a social network here, but an exchange of information, ideas. Therefore, reading about who hit whom or took away a toy is not why I came here. In my opinion, the best option is not to pay attention to it at all and not mention it in vain. And if you are not satisfied with your balance, try to spread the behavior that suits you among the community, or change your behavior to one that is more welcome.

Answer 7

the word "karma" causes hatred on the part of any karma community, and Habr is no exception here.

Answer 8

Karma and punishments for its minus size are rather strange concepts on Habrahabr. No, I'm not saying that punishment in the form of a ban on writing posts is unfair, but other restrictions are unfair - such as a ban on the use of tags. Recently, I lost the right to use tags due to the fact that I wrote a comment related to politics (however, what else to write in the news about Wikileaks (http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/mass_media/113062/)?), for which each minus the comment received a minus in karma. In the next comment after the question, he explained his position, received about as many pluses for comments, but that's it - comment with a time limit and a limit on tags, since all karma is merged into minuses.
It turns out that karma shows the attitude of the community towards the person himself, and the rating is a local recognition of Petrosyanism / reasonable comment / interesting news (or, in the case of a negative rating, the absence of such). And the mention of karma can cause thoughts that a person is a karma scammer who needs karma to show off and that's it.

Answer 9

Karma is an auxiliary regulatory mechanism, that's all. No particular hatred, just a little tired. There are many things in the world much more interesting than the numbers in the profile.

Answer 10

>>UPD. Whoever thinks that it doesn't, look at the rating of the question :)
The rating of the question to a greater extent reflects not hatred for the topic itself (and even more so not for the word itself), but for the content of the text of the question and answers.
Provocative questions have a very high probability of getting a low rating.

Answer 11

The reasons are psychological. What is habrakarma? In fact, it is a "puzomerka". But the “puzomerka” itself does not carry any negative / positive, the negative arises when some kind of discriminatory mechanisms (explicit or implicit) are tied to some kind of puzomerka.
And here the negative arises from both sides. Both "below" and "above".
Here are some examples of discrimination based on “ordinary social bullshit”, what is your salary, what car and what kind of wife:
When they talk down to you, like I have four companies at twenty-five years old, one Bentley car, the second Ferrari, my wife is a model and two slender beautiful mistresses, and what have you achieved, nerd, at forty-five years old, you live in a communal apartment, you get fifteen thousand , you can’t make money on a rusty Zhiguli, your wife is an alcoholic and she left you, loser! You look at it all and say, “Oh, you are such and such a bourgeois, you fall into my hands ...”!
And vice versa. You earn well enough, you work, you provide for yourself, and you swear every time: How fucked up are you, fucking rogue beggars, didn’t have time to get out of the subway, already trudging towards you with a plaintive look “you won’t have change for beer”, freaks, pancake! Go yourself and earn!
So with any puzomerka, as well as a completely “material” type of money, as well as “virtual”, for example, some kind of TIC and PR of a site, a rating on a torrent tracker, the number of friends in a social network, ... the list goes on ... the same habrakarma .
And when the topic is so slippery, people get very tense when there is even an understanding about the puzomerka .
For example, if I ask you, “What is your salary?”! Aren't you tense? Why is he asking? Maybe to face off and then laugh at me, saying how worthless and a loser I am? Or maybe to snitch on the tax? Or maybe he has criminal intent? Or maybe he's up to something else...
There is a dependence: the more “discriminatory” a puzomerka is, the more even the mention of it causes negativity! Alas, man is not far removed from the monkeys human psychology, it is such a thing!