Thanks for those links. Just the other day dang and tptacek were (absurdly) claiming that karma has no value; yet, here was tptacek on the second comment in your (2403696) link:<p>&gt;Users should live or die by their votes on that comment. If you vote up the blub comment, you should personally get the downvotes for it too. Upvotes should expose you to the karmic downside of superficial comments.