I have noticed the same sense that hundreds or thousands of views or likes or whatever is unfairly compared to those others with the tens of thousands and millions, with one critical exception: forum karma. It seems like when people communicate to each other through text, even a few down votes are often cause for extraordinary negative reaction on the part of the creator. So much so that it's a rule to not complain about it, here.
Assuming I'm not alone in witnessing this, I wonder two things: 1) what makes a forum environment different? and, 2) do people who react poorly to negative karma (or meager positive karma) ALSO expect high engagement IF they create on other platforms?
For example, I present a hypothetical person on reddit with accumulated "high" karma (say, high 8000s). This person also has 10k followers on TikTok, 3 YouTube videos with 6 digit views, and several viral tweets. They get -5 karma on a random reddit post and freak out. What makes the raw number differ between platforms? Is it raw number or a ratio of potential to actual?
(yes I know this is the epitome of a strawman, but I'm basing it off of a cohort of roughly similar real people)
Assuming I'm not alone in witnessing this, I wonder two things: 1) what makes a forum environment different? and, 2) do people who react poorly to negative karma (or meager positive karma) ALSO expect high engagement IF they create on other platforms?
For example, I present a hypothetical person on reddit with accumulated "high" karma (say, high 8000s). This person also has 10k followers on TikTok, 3 YouTube videos with 6 digit views, and several viral tweets. They get -5 karma on a random reddit post and freak out. What makes the raw number differ between platforms? Is it raw number or a ratio of potential to actual?
(yes I know this is the epitome of a strawman, but I'm basing it off of a cohort of roughly similar real people)