Can you downmod a submission? I don't see how. If not, then submitting is a good strategy to get karma. You can't lose any.
Engaging in a debate, OTOH, is another issue. Doesn't matter who's right, what you've done, or what you know. If someone else disagrees with you and doesn't feel like saying why, they just click the down arrow. "Anonymous Coward Downmodders".
I could earn 50 points by posting the cure for cancer in one post and lose it all by saying I hate <Ruby, Facebook, Lisp, whatever> everywhere else.
So, to be safe, keep submitting, don't insult anyone, and never say anything controversial. But what fun would that be?
I mostly post controversial comments. This is obviously not the ideal way to get high karma, but I'm not very active and have 188 karma anyway, so it seems to work fine.
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Can you downmod a submission? I don't see how. If not, then submitting is a good strategy to get karma. You can't lose any.
Engaging in a debate, OTOH, is another issue. Doesn't matter who's right, what you've done, or what you know. If someone else disagrees with you and doesn't feel like saying why, they just click the down arrow. "Anonymous Coward Downmodders".
I could earn 50 points by posting the cure for cancer in one post and lose it all by saying I hate <Ruby, Facebook, Lisp, whatever> everywhere else.
So, to be safe, keep submitting, don't insult anyone, and never say anything controversial. But what fun would that be?
(Geez, I hope nobody disagrees with this.)
There are consequences if you spam the site with huge numbers of crappy links; they're just not so visible.
What the heck? What happens if you lose some karma? If you want to insult somebody (and it's related to the context), do it!
Maybe you won't get to 250 points and will be stuck with orange as your top color forever!
I mostly post controversial comments. This is obviously not the ideal way to get high karma, but I'm not very active and have 188 karma anyway, so it seems to work fine.