Rather interestingly I just noticed a rather extreme example. This comment had lost its author 75 points of karma by the time I made this post and still shows

Rather interestingly I just noticed a rather extreme example. This comment had lost its author 75 points of karma by the time I made this post and still shows up as -4: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1444511 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1444511