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Old 08-16-2011, 09:11 PM   #337
DiapDealer
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Originally Posted by taosaur View Post
I've got to say, of all the reputation systems I've seen on forums and blogs, MR's karma may be the most arbitrary. The numbers are absolutely, absurdly meaningless. There is no significance whatsoever in the quantity of karma one receives, or in the quantity one holds. One can assign significance to the quantity one hands out, but it becomes quickly evident that there is no sense of scale.

The feedback aspect is nice--the message prompt to actually say something kind or admiring or silly to someone--and in that sense it promotes goodwill, but the numbers are strictly decorative gibberish.
Spoken like a true small karma haver.
Here, have a little more decorative gibberish.
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