Did you delete some negative-scoring comments? Deleting a comment does not make its influence on your score go away. If you have never deleted a negatively voted comment then I don’t know why you don’t have positive karma.
In the past, I have deleted negative scoring comments (long story but notice some of the odd scoring on some of my older posts). I have not deleted any at all recently.
It was my understanding, however, that karma never dropped below zero. Is what you’re saying that you build up a buffer where it will never go above zero either until all of your past negativity is paid off (which I would call going below zero but not being displayed as below zero—but that just semantics obviously)?
Your karma score is the sum of the karma scores of all of your comments, including deleted comments. However, if it is zero or negative, it will display like zero. So if your karma score is −2, it’ll say “0” in your green circle, and if you get upvoted once, it will still say “0″, but if you then get upvoted twice more, it’ll say “1”.
Did you delete some negative-scoring comments? Deleting a comment does not make its influence on your score go away. If you have never deleted a negatively voted comment then I don’t know why you don’t have positive karma.
In the past, I have deleted negative scoring comments (long story but notice some of the odd scoring on some of my older posts). I have not deleted any at all recently.
It was my understanding, however, that karma never dropped below zero. Is what you’re saying that you build up a buffer where it will never go above zero either until all of your past negativity is paid off (which I would call going below zero but not being displayed as below zero—but that just semantics obviously)?
Your karma score is the sum of the karma scores of all of your comments, including deleted comments. However, if it is zero or negative, it will display like zero. So if your karma score is −2, it’ll say “0” in your green circle, and if you get upvoted once, it will still say “0″, but if you then get upvoted twice more, it’ll say “1”.
So I should have taken the advice to come back as a new account after being gang-tackled (to use a polite term).
I’m confused. Why is it okay to change your name and lose all your negative karma, when people clearly objected to your contributions?
That does seem like the best way to reset your karma. It does feel like a total negative karma should reset to zero after enough time passes.
Upvoted in the interest of saving you the trouble of making a new account. You’re now at 0 total karma.