I’m personally okay with my balance of positivity and negativity, but it’s kind of depressing that just about all of my highest-karma reddit comments are ones where I’m putting someone or something down.
Spending 15 minutes typing up an in depth explanation of a programming concept: 2 upvotes
Telling someone who was trying to dunk on the author of an academic paper (which they hadn’t read) that they were being full of shit: 30 upvotes
“Programming influencer youtube sounds like a cesspool”: 250 upvotes
I mostly like programming reddit, and I stand by my position in each case, but this is probably bad.