Karma is currently very visible to the writers. If you give little positive and negative points to human beings, they will interpret it as reward/punishment, no matter what the intent was. As a meetup organiser, I know I do feel more motivated when my meetup organisation posts get positive karma.
Karma shouldn’t be about punishing or rewarding writers, it should be about telling potential readers how helpful you think a post/comment is.
Karma is currently very visible to the writers. If you give little positive and negative points to human beings, they will interpret it as reward/punishment, no matter what the intent was. As a meetup organiser, I know I do feel more motivated when my meetup organisation posts get positive karma.
but is for some people, unfortunately
(I advocate more nuanced voting categories to solve this)