Simple solution: stop caring about karma, please. For christ sakes, my karma has been around 3.52~3.53 for close to a year now. I've accepted that I'm not gonna be a sage, guru, admin, or anything more than scholar, and I really don't give a damn. It's a freaking number, big deal. It does not correspond to ***** size, mental accuity, or even the quality of your posting half the time.
You can make a beautiful, witty, well supported post and have it rated to sh[/i]it minutes later because you happened to **** off someone who has an army of sock puppets. The same can happen in the opposite direction for an abesolutely pointless post. Stop worrying about a little number floating on magnetic media in some server somewhere, and just enjoy posting on here. You have to work to be dropped sub default on here... just ask varus. Just posting your opinion won't get you dropped there, unless you're a total dumbass.
So stop whining, and start posting.
/rant off
[i]Edited, Thu Jan 20 11:12:59 2005 by scubamage