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why would you want to do that? genuinely curious



Not the OP, but I see 2 reasons:

- avoid a competition that encourages people to just farm karma, which adds noise;

- avoid a kind of argument from authority, where some people get more influence than their points deserve just because they are high on the table.


Because high karma scores are mostly just embarrassing.




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