(Not trying to represent an institutional take here, other mods may disagree)
Would you mind spelling out the problem a bit? In my view, the current karma total is important info for me deciding whether to up or downvote something.
For example, I might have downvoted this quick take if it was over 60 or so (because quick-takes above 60 are generally worth reading for a wide group), and yet I wouldn’t downvote it at the number I found it (1) because it doesn’t deserve to have negative karma[1].
In other words, I think of karma almost as the question “is this post/comment under-, over-, or correctly rated?”, and I don’t currently think that that’s a problem.
(Not trying to represent an institutional take here, other mods may disagree)
Would you mind spelling out the problem a bit? In my view, the current karma total is important info for me deciding whether to up or downvote something.
For example, I might have downvoted this quick take if it was over 60 or so (because quick-takes above 60 are generally worth reading for a wide group), and yet I wouldn’t downvote it at the number I found it (1) because it doesn’t deserve to have negative karma[1].
In other words, I think of karma almost as the question “is this post/comment under-, over-, or correctly rated?”, and I don’t currently think that that’s a problem.
Also TBF I generally avoid upvoting or downvoting anything about the Forum itself, since I might be biased.
I would say doing the opposite would be a problem, like upvoting something partly because it has positive karma so “this must be valuable”.
I’m not actively doing this nor endorsing it, I just caught myself having this reflex.