Saying the (hopefully) obvious, just to avoid potential misunderstanding: There is absolutely nothing wrong with writing something for a smaller group of people (“people working in this space”), but naturally such articles get less karma, because the number of people interested in the topic is smaller.
Karma is not a precise tool to measure the quality of content. If there were more than a handful of votes, the direction (positive or negative) usually means something, but the magnitude is more about how many people felt that the article was written for them (therefore highest karma goes to well written topics aimed at the general audience).
My suggestion is to mostly ignore these things. Positive karma is good, but bigger karma is not necessarily better.
Saying the (hopefully) obvious, just to avoid potential misunderstanding: There is absolutely nothing wrong with writing something for a smaller group of people (“people working in this space”), but naturally such articles get less karma, because the number of people interested in the topic is smaller.
Karma is not a precise tool to measure the quality of content. If there were more than a handful of votes, the direction (positive or negative) usually means something, but the magnitude is more about how many people felt that the article was written for them (therefore highest karma goes to well written topics aimed at the general audience).
My suggestion is to mostly ignore these things. Positive karma is good, but bigger karma is not necessarily better.