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I'm sure I'll come across as something between a Scrooge and a wet blanket, but I'm not a big fan of Karma, Post Counts, Member Since, etc. It seems people use these, in all honesty, meaningless metrics to stratify themselves, form cliques, and build pseudo authority. Trust me, there are many folk on forums who've been members for ever, or have a huge post count, and have no idea what they're talking about. In fact, some of us old-timers are so used to doing things in a certain way that we'll tell new folks "you're doing it wrong," when in fact they're doing it the right "new" way, that we have yet to learn.
A couple of systems I've used have had the option for individual members to disable karma. I choose to do so when possible, but that's just my personal preference.
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