gene_pool wrote:
I think there should be some sort of leaderboard, to see who is winning.
Then people would downrate eachother even more. This would be even worse if you were on top of the leader board - people would neg you just because you are on top, and others wouldn't +1 you because you already had so much. It would be better to see a list of everyones Karma votes so that obvious trolls can have their Karma rights removed and their -1's against others reset to 0s.
An automated script could even check to see what percentage or how many people are just spamming -1s on other accounts. This is getting a bit technical for a simple system of karma, but everyone knows how many trolls and idiots there are out there. It almost makes sense to just have +1 and no other option.
The Karma concept is great on paper and fun to be rewarded for thoughtful posts, but the trolls will always get to you.