Karma is awarded definitely as a recognition of the usefulness of the contribution. The user’s overall karma is an unprincipled straight addition of those “usefulness scores”. Still, it’s the closest thing the site has to it’s trust in the user and we use it to award: a) More influence in the form of higher-powered votes b) More ability to moderate one’s own posts (ability to moderate personal blogposts at 50 karma, and those that have been promoted to the frontpage or community at 2000)
Karma is awarded definitely as a recognition of the usefulness of the contribution. The user’s overall karma is an unprincipled straight addition of those “usefulness scores”. Still, it’s the closest thing the site has to it’s trust in the user and we use it to award:
a) More influence in the form of higher-powered votes
b) More ability to moderate one’s own posts (ability to moderate personal blogposts at 50 karma, and those that have been promoted to the frontpage or community at 2000)