That’s quite all right; I’m sure the naivete blossoming forth from the OP makes that an easy mistake to make. :P
I’m well aware of the Discussion Section… which only compounds my error. Yes, this should have been posted there. Losing some eighty Karma (by the way, apparently negative Karma does not exist per se, but perhaps it does de facto… is as good a wakeup call as any for the sin of overconfidence.
I would have traded my karma simply for the advice you’ve given here. Thank you. And thank you for the compliment on my writing style; nice to see not everything about this experience was negative. I assure you that I will not be leaving any time soon. When I first saw that this post was getting a negative response, I made a split-second decision: should I flee, or should I learn? I choose to learn.
I think even though the karma counter never goes below zero, downvotes still count and it won’t go above zero until you get enough upvotes to cancel them out.
I can confirm that hypothesis; I’m still at zero, even though the grandfather to this post has received 4 points, given after I lost all my karma. Actually, this is a bit of an annoyance; I have no way to gauge how far I have to go to get into the positives...
That’s quite all right; I’m sure the naivete blossoming forth from the OP makes that an easy mistake to make. :P
I’m well aware of the Discussion Section… which only compounds my error. Yes, this should have been posted there. Losing some eighty Karma (by the way, apparently negative Karma does not exist per se, but perhaps it does de facto… is as good a wakeup call as any for the sin of overconfidence.
I would have traded my karma simply for the advice you’ve given here. Thank you. And thank you for the compliment on my writing style; nice to see not everything about this experience was negative. I assure you that I will not be leaving any time soon. When I first saw that this post was getting a negative response, I made a split-second decision: should I flee, or should I learn? I choose to learn.
I think even though the karma counter never goes below zero, downvotes still count and it won’t go above zero until you get enough upvotes to cancel them out.
I can confirm that hypothesis; I’m still at zero, even though the grandfather to this post has received 4 points, given after I lost all my karma. Actually, this is a bit of an annoyance; I have no way to gauge how far I have to go to get into the positives...
As long as you didn’t delete any other comments/posts, you can figure out what your karma is by adding up everything else.