Like any compromise, it offers negative points as well as positive ones. I would argue that very often (at least in this community), posts with large karma are

Like any compromise, it offers negative points as well as positive ones. I would argue that very often (at least in this community), posts with large karma are valuable, if not necessarily as valuable as the karma would indicate. Karma is a mechanism of convenience; that isn't to say it precludes users from browsing and enjoying non-karma'd posts.