A recurrent disappointment with EA Forum comments related to the karma system is the frequency with which they assume that a particular explanation of the karma score of a given comment is correct, without even considering alternative explanations. One doesn’t have to be very creative or contrarian to think of plausible reasons users may have disagreed-voted with the statement “CEA is widely perceived as grossly ineffective whereas AMF is perceived as highly effective” other than that “CEA staff have so much karma that they can tank any comment with a single downvote”.
A recurrent disappointment with EA Forum comments related to the karma system is the frequency with which they assume that a particular explanation of the karma score of a given comment is correct, without even considering alternative explanations. One doesn’t have to be very creative or contrarian to think of plausible reasons users may have disagreed-voted with the statement “CEA is widely perceived as grossly ineffective whereas AMF is perceived as highly effective” other than that “CEA staff have so much karma that they can tank any comment with a single downvote”.