These ideas need some refinement, but: If an article you submit reaches the end of the "new" page with no up votes it decreases your karma by a point. Yah, it

These ideas need some refinement, but: If an article you submit reaches the end of the "new" page with no up votes it decreases your karma by a point. Yah, it would affect me too, but that's irrelevant. Related, submitting a new article by someone with negative karma not allowed- or maybe the article is assigned that same negative karma that it must overcome...