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I don't care about Karma.

Mostly.

One day I noticed that I had about 180 karma and decided to try for 250 so I could change the colour of the Navbar. After clearing 250 (and changing the color to a nice soothing green vs the default orange), I find I don't really care about Karma.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. - Napoleon

Perhaps, these customization freebies only become available at various karma levels because the intent is to get a user to increase karma.If we aren't chasing karma then this stuff can just become available as features.

Wait till you get close to the leader board. Then there will be a challenge again. It's insidious.

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