Karma is earned for essentially nothing and it can be trivially replenished if you 'run out', charging a point won't help down votes be used sparingly or more e

Karma is earned for essentially nothing and it can be trivially replenished if you 'run out', charging a point won't help down votes be used sparingly or more effectively. Accounts that consistently post bad comments quickly get banned so that nobody sees their comments unless people enable 'show dead' in their account settings. Any time you see an inappropriate comment thread just flag it (have to click the comment date permalink) or drop a "paging @dang" reply - he enforces the standards without the ambiguity of silent down votes. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang