I am a longtime Habr participant - an ordinary reader and corporate author. For me, Habr is a well-known, studied, native and not hostile environment, so every time I read the arguments of the “karmasracha” participants in surprise and bypass them, because there is no time to write comments for 5000 characters. But this morning I received a link to a post from vc.ru, which I rarely look at, mostly out of necessity. And the post touched me - peremptorily, linearity of judgments and even distortion of facts. For once I decided to ramsit. So, go to karmasrach, I created.
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Commentary on the article in the nearest winery on vc.ru. Ideal KDPV
Facts first
No matter how ironic it may sound, but this article about censorship, bureaucracy and ridiculous restrictions on Habré has been ... removed from Habr.
The article was not deleted from Habr, I checked it. If it were published on Habr, then its copy would be preserved on an infinite number of Habr mirrors, but it is nowhere to be found. So, as I understood from the story below, this article hung in the moderator's (closed) sandbox, from where the moderator rejected it, because the post looks stupid and one-sided (well, or for some other reason, I'm not going to get into the moderators' thoughts here) . So it was not deleted, but did not pass moderation - you must admit, there is a difference.
Habr, with all its strict rules “Habr is not an imageboard”, Habr is not that, Habr is not that, with its own system of branding people as right and wrong, as “full-fledged” and second-rate, it would hardly have been able to take root somewhere in the west where people are sickened by censorship and restriction of freedoms.
For now, I will omit the emotional part of this statement, I will only focus on the fact that in all communities of doctors, security specialists, professional psychologists, rescuers, and even developers, there are very strict rules for “entry” and fairly strong moderation (the fact that the author was born in 1990, consciously who watched the fall of socialism from the cradle, calls it censorship). You can get into some of them only from the photo of your university diploma. And this is true, because 10 random "passing by" in the community of doctors or psychologists turn the thread into medieval trash and waste.
Interestingly, which is not to say that it was worked out, and indeed was advertising in fact (which is prohibited by the rules), they missed it.
I have bad news - she wasn't let in, she hangs out in the public Sandbox and may or may not get an invite. And if the author admits that it is advertising, then the moderators will most likely reject it. But it is not advertising according to the rules, by the way, in the light of Habr's latest indulgences, free pet projects are given the green light.
So nothing is new under the sun and the system of karma, invites and pre-moderation is far from a Khabrovsky invention, which, in my opinion, is very suitable for the professional community.
Karma: to be or not to be
I'll be dishonest if I say that I don't give a damn about karma. No, I react sensitively to every + and -, but not because I like to look at her before going to bed, but because she symbolizes whether I am bringing a blizzard and whether I told a harmful story in a comment or post (by the way, my personal anti-record post minus 48, but this is the only minus post in my life). And yes, sometimes I want to “spit in karma” would not be so easy, but would be worth something.
So, how good is the system of pre-moderation - karma - rating - invite?
- Habr is a fairly trusted source of information, teachers refer to articles from here, links to ready-made solutions in posts and on the Toaster (the one that is now Habr Q&A) are thrown to each other by colleagues in companies, applicants judge employers by posts on Habré, and employers themselves study applicant profiles. Therefore, if a "peek-a-boo azhaity" bursts at him, it will be a sharp blow to the reliability and hardcore nature of the information.
- I always carefully read "karmaposts" and you know what I find - the initiators and the most active karmonytic commentators, as a rule, are users with strongly (well, or not strongly) negative karma. They try to convince everyone with the same arguments about censorship and “I was downvoted because my opinion does not coincide with theirs.” My dear unrecognized geniuses, 3-4 people with common views or work can easily merge you, but if you have -20, -30, etc. - this is already a trend and perhaps your brilliant statement or post has some professional or ethical flaws. And it's great that there is a simple mechanism that helps to explain this without physical assault and insults.
- Karma, rating and invite, among other things, is a motivating gamification that makes Habr Habr a community that you want to get into and whose respect you need to earn. You go through levels, get achievements, become the leader of the hub, hang high in the rating of authors or companies - and this is such a cool user KPI, self-esteem cast and growth vector. And if you despair, you can commit habrasuicide and start downloading the Persian again. This gamification, in my opinion, is good for novice authors and convenient for identifying really cool authors (not always - sometimes a dude grows karma on 1 hype post and disappears forever).
- Checking all the first publications by the moderator is generally a cool thing - for me personally, the “return” of the article helped me make it better, explore the possibilities of layout on Habré and understand what exactly the resource and its audience need.
Why is the system of pre-moderation - karma - rating - invite bad?
- First of all, the fact that we are dealing with the human factor and indeed, karma can be used as a vendetta. “Ah, you think Delphi is a dead language? Nna get minus 1, muahahaha." But these are just individual reactions that, with adequate behavior, do not lead the author to any deplorable results.
- It’s bad that the fall of karma limits users in many rights - nevertheless, there are times when the author wants to correct himself, the nullifier is used, and you have to create a new account.
- Causes addiction 🙂
In any case, I can say that if there are graters around karma, it is not in vain in itself.
What will Habr become without karma - rating - pre-moderation - invites?
I predict the development of events in several directions at once.
- A bunch of low-grade IT humor and copy-paste from Peekaboo and related sites.
- Hundreds of complaints about companies, services, colleagues, etc., public leaks of corporate correspondence, intrigues, investigations of the lowest standard.
- A stream of schoolchildren and posts from “IT members” about how to write a website on the knee, hack VKontaktik, upload photos to Instagram, etc.
- Tons, no, megatons of advertising of everything and everything, from companies to solving equations to order.
And this is only in the first three days 🙂
I love this
However, back to the crying author on vc.ru
a system of stigmatizing people as right and wrong, as "full" and second-rate
If you go and bring your experience in the IT field or in something related to life in IT and around it, please go through the minimum barrier of adequacy. So that such articles as the author’s do not dazzle in the feed. On Habré it is really very easy to get an invite and a karma of about 10. Very easy.
Habr could only appear in Russia, and that's why
Author, you are damn right! Habr could arise only in Russia. And that's why. Read the articles of the English-language segment on open sites (such as those listed by the author), read the English-language posts on Habré - these are weak, general publications, often created in order to cram at least one advertising link or link to LinkedIn. Because only Russian (more precisely, post-Soviet) developers can express professional information in detail, for many thousands of characters, in their free time absolutely free of charge. Either the socialist past, or the habit of giving to write off has not outlived this universal communism of knowledge in us, when we are ready to talk about what we have been poring over for weeks, and sometimes for years, so that someone can take it and use it. Such is the open source knowledge transfer. And only Russian companies do not buy places in the ratings and advertising modules, but diligently blog, spending huge (guys, I know what I'm talking about) money to tell about themselves and attract the best specialists. For the sake of advertising the product, almost entire magazines are created inside Habr - because it was Habr and his audience who demanded such a level.
And I believe that Habr is what it is, unique, strong, long-lived precisely because of its mechanisms. Therefore, if someone decides to change something, it should be done as carefully as possible. And there are vests for Runet snot, it’s too early to stoop to that.
All karma, friends!
Source: habr.com