pyrrho's Journal: Quantitative Karma

Often there comes around a subject that is heated and controversial, but also totally meaningless and pointless to discuss at length. Of course I am referring to "slashdot.org" topics. Meta-moderation boycots, moderation boycotts, Taco Bashing. etc. Well until now I felt left out, I just couldn't care about any of these pointless topics and I can tell you it was clear that as a result I couldn't really fit or be part of the slashdot community. But now my karma isn't a number, it's a --- yech --- a -word-! Can you imagine. Sweet artifical quantification (mostly calculated) replaced by squishy human qualification (mostly affected). We lost calculated (mostly) for affected (mostly). Calculation for affectation. Math for psychology. Egads... it's the end.
Update: I don't really prefer mathematical statistics in a general sense, over psychology, both are very interesting. But in this case, I do.