I've been thinking that costs for upvotes or comments are probably worth a discussion on HN. The problem with online karma versus offline karma is that for budd

I've been thinking that costs for upvotes or comments are probably worth a discussion on HN. The problem with online karma versus offline karma is that for buddhists, offline karma has a real cost in some respects. Yet online karma is just a positive score. If you really had to stake your reputation on a link, would you really post that lolcat?