buybuydandavis comments on [moderator action] Eugine_Nier is now banned for mass downvote harassment

[buybuydandavis]

You do realize that karma is more than just a feel-good point system, right? …

Yes.

So a newbie who has been karma-bombed may not be leaving simply because he can’t handle the heat;

True, but that was how it was expressed (not exactly in those terms, of course).