individual comment karma is valuable, but overall karma count is just to encourage contributing. people get fuzzies from looking at big numbers next to their name (where “big” is a function of the numbers next to the names of people whose status is known).
individual comment karma is valuable, but overall karma count is just to encourage contributing. people get fuzzies from looking at big numbers next to their name (where “big” is a function of the numbers next to the names of people whose status is known).