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...
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.