Not really the case. My karma here doesn't pay my bills or has any practical benefit to me or anyone. I don't really care about it as I never downvote, which is

Not really the case. My karma here doesn't pay my bills or has any practical benefit to me or anyone. I don't really care about it as I never downvote, which is the only practical use of karma. So, I read something and because I've been following the new movements in health and nutrition in the past 10 years and investing a couple of hours a day to keep up, then I invest time in giving some seeds of thought for others and then downvotes start to pile up. I made clarifications and then I get even more downvotes on each of them usually having the same negative score on each post, which means that it's the same people downvoting every single one! This is not a dialog, this is a sort of punishment for thinking differently. Some people just can't help their aggressiveness, I guess. It's not the karma I care about, it's the lack of any appreciation of other people's efforts and their good intentions; it's the downhill movement of this community. It's just turning into a much less popular version of Reddit, unfortunately. Honestly, if there was no YCombinator brand behind it, it would have self-destructed itself long ago, but thanks to Paul Graham's halo and YCombinator brand, the agony will be forever. Recently, most of the top posts are copied from ProductHunt, which is very indicative of the decline. Learn from the biggest - Facebook and Twitter don't have downvote, dislike, distweet, and similar means of social punishment! The negative vibe would always destroy a community or, at least, make it unhealthy.