What if your posts didn’t show your username, but just a post ID, and you yourself could see your karma, but no-one else could? There might be problems with PMs, but I’m sure there are programmers here who could find a solution to that.
Your suggestion would indeed eliminate most status and reputation influences from the site. And this would be a bad thing.
Your suggestion would indeed eliminate most status and reputation influences from the site. And this would be a bad thing.