While I agree that this is divisive, having a gradient would just defeat the purpose of the feature, which is to highlight those whose examples you should be fo

While I agree that this is divisive, having a gradient would just defeat the purpose of the feature, which is to highlight those whose examples you should be following. Making it a gradient makes it really hard to tell who is setting a good example and who isn't. Rather than a gradient, I'd just like the option to turn it off, even if that option is only available after 50 karma or something. To me it is visual noise. Even better if it was visible to a user up to X karma and then disappeared past that. Then it would serve its training purpose without leading to a long-term two-tier culture here.